112 The Complete Angler. 



to your liking, fatten. 



I confefs, no direction can be gi- 

 ven to make a man of a dull capaci- 

 ty able to make a flye well; and yet 

 I know,this,with a little pradtice,wil 

 help and ingenuous Angler in a good 

 degree; but to fee a fly made by a- 

 nother, is the beft teaching to make 

 it, and then an ingenuous Angler 

 may walk by the River and mark 

 what fly falls on the water that day, 

 and catch one of them, if he fee the 

 Trout s leap at a fly of that kind, and 

 having alwaies hooks ready hung 

 with him, and having a bag alfo, al- 

 waies with him with Bears hair, or 

 the hair of a brown or fad coloured 

 Heifer,hackels of a Cock or Capon, 

 ieveral coloured Silk and Crewel to 

 make the body of the fly, the feathers 

 of a Drakes he ad, black or brown 

 fheeps wool,orHogs wool, or hair, 

 three 1 of Gold, and of iilver ; filk 

 of feveral colours ( elpecially fad 

 coloured to make the head :) and 



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