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flies, to angle with upon the top of the water. Note, by the 

 way, that the fittest season of using these is a blustering windy 

 day, when the waters are so troubled that the natural fly cannot 

 be seen, or rest upon them. The first is the Dun-fly, in 

 March : the body is made of dun wool ; the wings, of the par- 

 tridge's feathers. The second is another Dun-fly : the body of 

 black wool ; and the wings made of the black drake's feathers, 

 and of the feathers under his tail. The third is the Stone-fly, 

 in April : the body is made of black wool ; made yellow under 

 the wings and under the tail, and so made with wings of the 

 drake. The fourth is the Ruddy-fly, in the beginning of May : 

 the body made of red wool, wrapt about with black silk ; and 

 the feathers are the wings of the drake : with the feathers of a 

 red capon also, which hang dangling on his sides next to the 

 tail. The fifth is the Yellow or Greenish, in May likewise : the 

 body made of yellow wool; and the wings made of the red 

 cock's hackle or tail. The sixth is the Black-fly, in May also : 

 the body made of black wool, and lapped about like the herl of a 

 peacock's tail : the wings are made of the wings of a brown capon, 

 with his blue feathers in his head. The seventh is the sad 

 Yellow-fly, in June : the body is made of black wool, with a 

 yellow list on either side ; and the wings taken off the wings of 

 a buzzard, bound with black braked hemp. The eighth is the 

 Moorish-fly : made with the body of duskish wool ; and the wings 

 made of the blackish mail of the drake. The ninth is the Tawny- 

 fly, good until the middle of June : the body made of tawny wool ; 

 the wings made contrary, one against the other, made of the 

 whitish mail of the wild drake. The tenth is the Wasp-fly, in 

 July : the body made of black wool, lapt about with yellow 

 silk ; the wings made of the feathers of the drake, or of the 

 blizzard. The eleventh is the Shell-fly, good in mid July : the 

 body made of greenish wool, lapt about with the herl of a 

 peacock's tail; and the wings made of the wings of the Buzzard. 

 The twelfth is the Dark Drake-fly, good in August : the body 

 made with black wool, lapt about with black silk ; his wings 

 are made with the mail of the black drake, with a black head. 

 Thus have you a jury of flies, likely to betray and condemn all 

 the Trouts in the river. 



I shall next give you some other directious for fly-fishing, 

 such as are given by Mr Thomas Barker, * a gentleman that 



* This gentleman, addressing himself to the noble lord to whom his 

 book is dedicated, thus begins : 



" L'nder favour, I will compliment, and put a rase to your honour. 



I met with a man ; and upon our discourse he fell out with me, having a 

 good weapon, hut neither stomach nor skill: I say this man may come 

 home by Weeping-rross ; I will cause the clerk to toll his knell. It is the 

 very like case to the gentleman angler, that goeth to the river for hU 

 pleasure. This angler hath neither judgment, nor experience; he may 



