THE SECOND DAY. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



VIATOR. 



SO, Sir, I am now ready for another lesson, so soon as you 

 please to give it me. 



Pise. And I, Sir, as ready to give you the best I can. Hav- 

 ing told you the time of the Stone-fly's coming in, and that he 

 is bred of a cadis in the very river where he is taken, I am 

 next to tell you, that, 



13. This same STONE-FLY has not the patience to continue 

 in his crust, or husk, till his wings be full grown ; but so soon 

 as ever they begin to put out, that he feels himself strong (at 

 which time we call him a Jack), squeezes himself out of prison, 

 and crawls to the top of some stone ; where, if he can find a 

 chink that will receive him, or can creep betwixt two stones, 

 the one lying hollow upon the other, (which, by the way, we 

 also lay so purposely to find them,) he there lurks till his wings 

 be full grown, and there is your only place to find him ; and 

 from thence doubtless he derives his name : though, for want 

 of such convenience, he will make shift with the hollow of a 

 bank, or any other place where the wind cannot come to fetch 

 him off. His body is long, and pretty thick, and as broad at 

 the tail, almost, as in the middle : his color a very fine brown, 

 ribbed with yellow, and much yellower on the belly than the 

 back : he has two or three whisks also at the tag of his tail, 

 and two little horns upon his head : his wings, when full 

 grown, are double, and flat down his back, of the same color 

 but rather darker than his body, and longer than it ; though 



