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No. 1. Body, gold-coloured floss silk ; wings and legs, light brown 

 grouse hackle, from the neck of the bird. Hook, 10. This is the 

 grouse-hackle, and is a good summer fly at low water. 



No. 2. Body same as before; wings, grey mottled partridge tail- 

 feather ; legs, wren's tail-feather ; tail, two small fibres of brown 

 mallard. This fly should be dressed small and fine, and the body may be 

 varied with orange ; and for the Irish rivers, with green floss silk. It is 

 an excellent summer fly, and good for grayling in autumn. 



No. 3. Wings short, and to stand erect, of the yellow feather found 

 under the wings of the thrush and redstart ; body, light buff fur ; legs, 

 a very short fibred yellow dun hackle ; tail, two fibres of the same. 

 Hooks, 12 and 13. This is the little May-fly, Yellow Sally or Castle- 

 fly. It appears a week or ten days earlier in May than the Green-drake 

 and kills well of mornings and evenings. 



No. 4. BLUE-BOTTLE. Wings, starling's clear wing-feather, to lie 

 flat ; body, stone-blue floss silk, to be thick and short, and tipped with 

 gold tinsel ; black hackle under shoulder for legs. Hooks, 8, 9, and 10. 

 Trout take it freely 011 fine evenings, as a sort of dessert after a full 

 dinner on the Green-drake. It is a good summer-fly for chub. 



No. 5. THE WASP-ELY. Wings, hen pheasant's wing-feather; body, 

 light orange mohair, wound in separate circles from tail to shoulder, 

 between circles, a ribbing of black ostrich harl ; legs, three turns at 

 shoulder of a light brown-red hackle ; head, bronze peacock harl. Hooks, 

 6, 7, 8. A capital fly for large trout in deep currents, or in pools ruffled 

 by the wind. 



For very fine May evenings, and for those of the summer and early 

 autumn months, there are three standard flies, called " owl-flies," from 

 their wings, I suppose,being made of the feathers of different coloured owls. 



The first, which should be used early in the evening, has its body of 

 any soft brown fur; two sets of wings ; under ones, of the soft feather of 

 a brown owl ; and upper ones, of a dark brown mottled mallard feather ; 

 legs, a long-fibred ginger hackle, lapped behind the wings to make neck 

 and head. Hooks, 5 to 8. 



The second, to be used during twilight, has a body made of cream- 

 colour fur, and its wings of soft owl-feather of the same colour ; ginger 

 hackle under and behind wings. Hook, as before. 



The third, fit for angling at night, is made of white ostrich harl, 

 dressed full ; wings, of the feather of a nearly white owl ; legs, white 

 hen's hackle ; and brown head. Hook, as before. ED.] 



CHAPTER VIII. 

 [Sccon* Bain] 



VIAT. So, sir, I am now ready for another lesson, so soon 

 $ you please to give it me. 



