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dubbing pulled out of the lime of a wall, whipped about with 

 red silk, and a darkish-gray mallard's feather for the wing. 



2. And one other, for which we have no name, but it is 

 made of the black hair of a badger's skin, mixed with the yel- 

 low softest down of a sanded hog. 



OCTOBER. 



The same flies are taken this month that were taken in 

 March. 



NOVEMBER. 



The same flies that were taken in February are taken this 

 month also. 



DECEMBER. 



Few men angle with the fly this month, no more than they 

 do in January ; but yet, if the weather be warm, as I have 

 known it sometimes in my life to be, even in this cold country, 

 where it is least expected, then a brown that looks red in the 

 hand, and yellowish betwixt your eye and the sun, will both 

 raise and kill in a clear water, and free from snow-broth ; but, 

 at the best, 't is hardly worth a man's labor. 



And now, Sir, I have done with Fly-fishing, or angling at 

 the top ; excepting once more to tell you, that of all these, 

 and I have named you a great many very killing flies, none 

 are fit to be compared with the Drake and Stone- Fly, both for 

 many and very great fish. And yet there are some days that 

 are by no means proper for the sport ; and in a calm you shall 

 not have near so much sport, even with daping, as in a whis- 

 tling gale of wind, for two reasons, both because you are not 

 then so easily discovered by the fish, and also because there are 

 then but few flies that can lie upon the water ; for where they 

 have so much choice, you may easily imagine they will not be 



