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The artificial green drake, then, is made upon a large 

 hook ; the dubbing, camel's hair, bright bear's hair, the soft 

 down that is combed from a hog's bristles, and yellow 

 camlet, well mixed together; the body long, and ribbed 

 about with green silk, or rather yellow, waxed with green 

 wax ; the whisks of the tail of the long hairs of sables, or 

 fitchet ; and the wings of a white-grey feather of a mallard, 

 dyed yellow, which also is to be dyed thus : 



Take the root of a barbary-tree, and shave it, and put to 

 it woody viss, with as much alum as a walnut, and boil your 

 feathers in it with rain-water, and they will be of a very fine 

 yellow. 



I have now done with the green drake, excepting to tell 

 you that he is taken at all hours during his season, whilst 

 there is any day upon the sky ; and with a made fly I once 

 took, ten days after he was absolutely gone, in a cloudy day, 

 after a shower, and in a whistling wind, five-and-thirty very 

 great trouts and graylings, betwixt five and eight of the 

 clock in the evening, and had no less than five or six flies, 

 with three good hairs apiece, taken from me in despite of 

 my art, besides. 



12. I should now come next to the Stone-Fly, but there 

 is another gentleman in my way, that must of necessity 

 come in between, and that is the Grey Drake, which in all 

 shapes and dimensions is perfectly the same with the other, 

 but quite almost of another colour, being of a paler and 

 more livid yellow and green, and ribbed with black quite 

 down his body, with black shining wings, and so diaphanous 

 and tender, cobweb-like, that they are of no manner of use 

 for daping ; but come in, and are taken after the green 

 drake, and in an artificial fly kill very well ; which fly is 



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