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more pleasure to the fly-angler than all the rest: and here 

 it is that you are to expect an account of the Green-drake 

 and Stone-fly, promised you so long ago, and some others 

 that are peculiar to this month and part of the month fol- 

 lowing, and that (though not so great either in bulk or name) 

 do yet stand in competition with the two before-named, 

 and so that it is yet undecided amongst the anglers to 

 which of the pretenders to the title of the May-fly it does 

 properly and duly belong. Neither dare I, (where so 

 many of the learned in this art of angling are got in dis- 

 pute about the controversy,) take upon me to determine ; 

 but I think I ought to have a vote amongst them, and 

 according to that privilege shall give you my free opinion, 

 and peradventure, when I have told you all, you may 

 incline to think me in the right. 



Viat. I have so great a deference to your judgment in 

 these matters, that I must always be of your opinion ; 

 and the more you speak, the faster I grow to my atten- 

 tion, for I can never be weary of hearing you upon this 

 subject. 



Pise. Why that's encouragement enough; and now 

 prepare yourself for a tedious lecture; but I will first 

 begin with the flies of less esteem, (though almost any 

 thing will take a Trout in May, that I may afterwards 

 insist the longer upon those of greater note and reputa- 

 tion. Know, therefore, that the first fly we take notice of 

 in this month, is called 



1. The TURKEY-FLY; the dubbing ravelled out of 

 some blue stuff, and lapt about with yellow silk, the wings 

 of a grey-mallard's feather. 



2. Next, a GREAT HACKLE, or PALMER-FLY ; with 

 a yellow body, ribbed with gold-twist, and large wings of 

 a mallard's feather dyed yellow, with a red capon's hac- 

 kle over all. 



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