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and evening ; you must then provide a cane-rod, 

 which is the lightest of any, and let it be seventeen 

 feet at least in length, and your line which should, 

 from the middle downwards, consist of single-hairs, 

 be a little longer than your rod; then provide a suffi- 

 cient quantity of small house-flies, which keep in 

 a phial, stopped with a cork. With these repair, 

 especially about seven or eight o'clock in a sum- 

 mer's evening, to a mill-stream, and having fixed 

 three or four hooks, with single-hair links, not 

 above four inches long to your line, bait them 

 with the flies, and angle upon the surface of the 

 water on the smoothest part, at the end of the 

 stream ; the dace will rise freely, especially if the 

 sun does not shine on that part of the water where 

 you cast the flies, and you may take two or three 

 at a time. This sport will continue as long as 

 day-light will permit you to see the flies. In 

 the same manner dace will also rise at the ant- 

 fly upon the surface of the water, if used in a 

 morning at the foot of a current or mill-stream or 

 on the scour before the sun comes on the water. 

 If the water is high, so as to be almost equal with 

 its banks, take your fly-rod, and fasten to your line 

 an artificial-fly, called the caterpillar-fly, or a small 

 red palmer, then take a large yellow gentle, the yel- 

 lower the better, run the hook through the skin of 

 it, and draw it up to the tail of the fly : this being 

 done, whip it on the surface of the water, and if 

 you are diligent and expert, you will have good 

 'diversion. If you angle where two mill-streams 

 are going at the same time, let it be in the eddy 

 between the two streams : first make use of your 

 plummet ; if the water is deep, angle within a foot 

 of the bottom, and perhaps you will find but poor 

 sport; but if it proves to be shallow, that is, about 



