1 68 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



dull capacity able to make a fly well ; and yet I know this, 

 with a little practice, will help an ingenious angler in a 

 good degree; but to see a fly made by an artist in that 

 kind, is the best teaching to make it. And then an ingeni- 

 ous angler may walk by the river and mark what flies fall 

 on the water that day, and catch one of them, if he see the 

 trouts leap at a fly of that kind ; and then having always 

 hooks ready hung with him, and having a bag also always 

 with him, with bear's hair, or the hair of a brown or sad- 

 coloured heifer, hackles of a cock or capon, several coloured 

 silk and crewel to make the body of the fly, the feathers of 

 a drake's head, black or brown sheep's wool, or hog's wool 

 or hair, thread of gold and of silver ; silk of several colours 

 (especially sad-coloured), to make the fly's head ; and there 

 be also other coloured feathers, both of little birds and of 

 speckled fowl : I say, having those with him in a bag, and 

 trying to make a fly, though he miss at first, yet shall he at 

 last hit it better, even to such a perfection as none can well 

 teach him ; and if he hit to make his fly right, and have the 

 luck to hit also where there is store of trouts, a dark day, 

 and a right wind, he will catch such store of them as will 

 encourage him to grow more and more in love with the art 

 of fly-making. 



VEN. But, my loving master, if any wind will not serve, 

 then I wish I were in Lapland, to buy a good wind of one 

 of the honest witches that sell so many winds there, and so 

 cheap. 



PlSC. Marry, scholar, but I would not be there, nor indeed 

 from under this tree ; for look how it begins to rain ! and 

 by the clouds, if I mistake not, we shall presently have a 

 smoking shower, and therefore sit close : this sycamore-tree 



