282 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



shining wings, and so diaphanous and tender, cobweb-like, that 

 they are of no use for daping ; but come in, and are taken after 

 the green-drake, and in an artificial fly kill very well, which fly 

 is thus made : * The dubbing of the down of a hog's bristles and 

 black spaniel's fur mixed, and ribbed down the body with black 

 silk ; the whisks, of the hairs of the beard of a black cat ; and 

 the wings, of the black gray feather of a mallard. 



And now I come to the stone-fly ; but I am afraid I have 

 already wearied your patience ; which, if I have, I beseech you 

 freely tell me so. and I will defer the remaining instructions for 

 fly angling till some other time. 



Viator. No, truly, sir, I can never be weary of hearing you. 

 But if you think fit, because I am afraid I am too troublesome, 

 to refresh yourself with a glass and a pipe, you may afterwards 

 proceed, and I shall be exceedingly pleased to hear you. 



Piscator. I thank you, sir, for that motion ; for, believe me, 

 I am dry with talking, : here, boy ! give us here a bottle and a 

 glass ; and, sir, my service to you, and to all our friends in the 

 south. 



Viator. Your servant, sir ; and I '11 pledge you as heartily ; 

 for the good powdered beef I ate at dinner, or something else, 

 has made me thirsty. 



CHAPTER VIII. 



FISHING AT THE TOP CONTINUED. FLIES FOR THE END OF MAY, 

 AND FOR THE FOLLOWING MONTHS TILL DECEMBER; CON- 

 TAINING, UNDER MAY, INSTRUCTIONS WHEN TO DAPE WITH 

 THE STONE-FLY. 



Viator. So, sir, I am now ready for another lesson, so soon 

 as you please to give it me. 



Piscator. 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 cadis in the very river where he is taken, f 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 as soon as 



* Gray-drake. The body, of an absolute white ostrich feather ; the end 

 of the body towards the tail, of peacock's herl ; warping, of an ash colour, 

 with silver twist and black hackle ; wing, of a dark gray feather of a 

 mallard. A very killing fly, especially towards the evening, when the fish 

 are glutted with the green-drake. 



f Chap. vii. Num. 11. * 



* It is an old and foolish notion among anglers, that fish will only take the sorts of 

 maggots bred in the rivers where they live. If so, they would never take grasshoppers, 

 crickets, and earfc worms, much less artificial Hies. J. R. 



