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

 as you please to give it me. 



PlSC. And I, Sir, as ready to give you the best I can. 

 Having told you the time of the stone-fly's coming in, and 

 that he is bred of a caddis in the very river where he is 

 taken, I am next to tell you that, 



13. This same Stone-Fly has not the patience to continue 

 in his crust, or husk, till his wings be full grown ; but so soon 

 as ever they begin to put out, that he feels himself strong 

 (at which time we call him a Jack), squeezes himself out of 

 prison, and crawls to the top of some stone, where if he can 

 find a chink that will receive him, or can creep betwixt two 

 stones, the one lying hollow upon the other, which, by the 

 way, we also lay so purposely to find them, he there lurks, 

 till his wings be full grown, and there is your only place to 



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