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had forced them down his throat after he had taken 

 him. 



Now for flies, which is the third bait wherewith trouts 

 are usually taken. You are to know that there are so many 

 sort of flies as there be of fruits : I will name you but some 

 of them ; as the dun-fly, the stone-fly, the red fly, the moor- 

 fly, the tawny fly, the shell-fly, the cloudy or blackish fly, 

 the flag-fly, the vine-fly : there be of flies, caterpillars, and 

 canker-flies, and bear-flies ; and indeed too many either for 

 me to name or for you to remember. And their breeding 

 is so various and wonderful, that I might easily amaze my- 

 self and tire you in a relation of them. 



And yet I will exercise your promised patience by saying 

 a little of the caterpillar, or the palmer-fly or worm ; that 

 by them you may guess what a work it were, in a discourse, 

 but to run over those very many flies, worms, and little living 

 creatures, with which the sun and summer adorn and beautify 

 the river-banks and meadows, both for the recreation and 

 contemplation of us anglers ; pleasures which, I think, I 

 myself enjoy more than any other man that is not of my 

 profession. 



Pliny holds an opinion, that many have their birth or being 

 from a dew that in the spring falls upon the leaves of trees ; 

 and that some kinds of them are from a dew left upon herbs 

 or flowers ; and others, from a dew left upon coleworts or 

 cabbages; all which kinds of dews being thickened and 

 condensed, are by the sun's generative heat most of them 

 hatched, and in three days made living creatures : and these 

 of several shapes and colours ; some being hard and tough, 

 some smooth and soft ; some are horned in their head, some 

 in their tail, some have none ; some have hair, some none ; 



