284 THE COMPLETE ANGLER. 



fly will murder, which is to be made thus : the dubbing, of 

 bear's dun, with a little brown and yellow camlet very well 

 mixed, but so placed that your fly may be more yellow on the 

 belly and towards the tail, underneath, than in any other part ; 

 and you are to place two or three hairs of a black cat's beard on 

 the top of the hook, in your arming, so as to be turned up when 

 you warp on your dubbing, and to stand almost upright, and 

 staring one from another ; and note, that your fly is to be ribbed 

 with yellow silk ; and the wings long, and very large, of the 

 dark gray feather of a mallard. 



14. The next May-fly is the black-fly ; made with a black 

 body, of the whirl of an ostrich feather, ribbed with silver twist, 

 and the black hackle of a cock over all ; and is a killing fly, but 

 not to be named with either of the other. 



15. The last May-fly (that is of the four pretenders*) is the 

 little yellow May-fly ; in shape exactly the same with the green- 

 drake, but a very little one, and of as bright a yellow as can be 

 seen ; which is made of a bright yellow camlet, and the wings 

 of a white gray feather dyed yellow. 



16. The last fly for this month, (and which continues all June, 

 though it comes in the middle of May,) is the fly called the 

 camlet-fly, in shape like a moth, with fine diapered or water 

 wings, and with which (as I told you before) I sometimes used 

 to dibble ; and Grayling will rise mightily at it. But the arti- 

 ficial fly (which is only in use amongst our anglers) is made of 

 a dark brown shining camlet, ribbed over with a very small light 

 green silk ; the wings, of the double gray feather of a mallard ; 

 and it is a killing fly for small fish. And so much for May. 



From the first to the four-and-twentieth, the green-drake and 

 stone-fly are taken, as I told you before. 



1. From the twelfth to the four-and-twentieth, late at night, 

 is taken a fly called the owl-fly ;f the dubbing of a white weasel's 

 tail ; and a white gray wing. 



2. We have then another dun, called the barm-fly, from its 

 yeasty colour. The dubbing of the fur of a yellow dun cat ; 

 and a gray wing, of a mallard's feather. 



3. We have also a hackle with a purple body, whipped about 

 with a red capon's feather. 



* See ante, p. 279. 



f White miller, or' vwl-Jiy. The body of white ostrich her!, white 

 hackle, and silver twist, if you please; wing-, of the white feather of a 

 tame duck. Taken from sunset till ten at night, and from two to four in 

 the morning. H. 



The white or pale-coloured moths, such as the ghost-moth, (Hepialus 

 huiHuli,) are called owl-flies by anglers. J. R. 



