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the same manner. The wings of this fly are 

 made with the lightest sky-blue feather you can 

 get, and with the greatest gloss ; but it is difficult 

 to rind any that can come up to the glossiness of 

 the natural wings, except the thistle, which 

 makes them the best of any thing I know of, but 

 is not lasting ; the body is made with a black 

 ostrich's feather, and a black cock's hackle wrapt 

 under the but of the wings: it is to be made in 

 the same form as the red one. The hook, JNo. 8, 



HIE WELCHMAWS BUTTON, OR HASLE FLY 



Comes on about the latter end of July, and 

 continues on about nine days; it is in form like 

 a round button, from which it derives its name : 

 it has four \vings, the uppermost husky and hard, 

 the undermost of a fine blue colour, soft, and 

 transparent : it is to be found on hazel-trees, or 

 fern : it is an excellent flv for bobbins: at the 

 bush, or dub line ; but is ralher d fficult to make, 

 on account of its shape and form : the wings are 

 made from the red feather that throws upon the 

 rurnp or tail of a partridge; the body is made 

 with a peacock's herl and an ostru h's feather 

 mixed, and the legs of a fine black cock's hackle. 

 The hook, No. 1. 



THE LITTLE RED AND BLACK ANT FLIES 



Come on about the tenth or twelfth of August, 

 and are to be seen in warm gloom v days, till the 

 latter end of September : to be fished with from 

 about twelve o'clock, ti'l four in the evening^ 

 and are to be made in the same form as the large 

 ones, and \vith the same materials, but very 

 small. The hook, No. Q. 



