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cock's hackle or tail. The SIXTH is the black-fly, in 

 May also : the body made of black wool, and lapt about 

 with the herle of a peacok'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 

 buzzard. The ELEVENTH is the shell-fly, good in mid- 

 July: the body made of greenish wool, lapt about with 

 the herle 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 con- 

 demn all the Trouts in the river. 



I shall next give you some other directions for fly- 

 fishing, such as are given by Mr. Thomas Barker, 1 a 



(1) It is supposed that the reader is by this time not wholly ignorant who 

 this gentleman was, as mention is made of him in the Author's Life. We have 

 already given the Dedication to his Art of Angling ; and here now follow 

 some extracts from that humourous piece itself. Addressing himself to the 

 noble lord to whom his book is dedicated, he thus begins : 



" Under favour, I will compliment, and put a case to your honour. 



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

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

 by Weeping-crou ; I will eaiue the clerk to toll his knell. It is the very 

 like case to the gentleman angler, that goelh to the river for his pleasure. 

 This angler hath neither judgment nor experience ; he may come home lightly 



