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dubbing pulled out of the lime of a wall, whipped about 

 with red silk, and a darkish grey mallard's feather for the 

 wing. 



2. And one other for which we have no name ; but it is 

 made of the black hair of a badger's skin, mixed with the 

 yellow softest down of a sanded hog. 



OCTOBER. 



The same flies are taken this month that were taken in 



March. 



NOVEMBER. 



The same flies that were taken in February are taken 



this month also. 



DECEMBER. 



Few men angle with the fly this month, no more than 

 they do in January ; but yet, if the weather be warm (as I 

 have known it sometimes in my life to be, even in this cold 

 country, where it is least expected), then a brown, that 

 looks red in the hand, and yellowish betwixt your eye and 

 the sun, will both raise and kill in a clear water and free 

 from snow-broth ; but, at the best, it is hardly worth a 

 man's labour. 



And now, Sir, I have done with fly-fishing, or angling at 

 the top, excepting once more to tell you, that of all these 

 (and I have named you a great many very killing flies) none 

 are fit to be compared with the drake and stone-fly, both 

 for many and for very great fish ; and yet there are some 

 days that arc by no means proper for the sport. And in a 

 calm you shall not have near so much sport, even with dap- 

 ing, as in a whistling gale of wind, for two reasons : both 

 because you are not then so easily discovered by the fish, 



