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of them than of any others ; and indeed the Trout never 

 feeds fat, nor comes into his perfect season, till these flies 

 come in. 



Of these the GREEN-DRAKE never discloses from his 

 husk, till he be first there grown to full maturity, body, 

 wings, and all ; and then he creeps out of his cell, but with 

 his wings so crimpt and ruffled, by being prest together 

 in that narrow room, that they are for some hours totally 

 useless to him ; by which means he is compelled either to 

 creep upon the flags, sedges, and blades of grass, (if his 

 first rising from the bottom of the water be near the banks 

 of the river) till the air and sun stiffen and smooth them : 

 or if his first appearance above water happen to be in the 

 middle, he then lies upon the surface of the water, like a 

 ship at hull, (for his feet are totally useless to him there, 

 and he cannot creep upon the water as the Stone-fly can,) 

 until his wings have got stiffness to fly with, if by some Trout 

 or Grayling he be not taken in the interim, (which ten to 

 one he is,) and then his wings stand high, and clos'd exact 

 upon his back, like the butterfly, and his motion in flying 

 is the same. His body is in some, of a paler, in others of a 

 darker yellow, (for they are not all exactly of a colour) 

 ribb'd with rows of green, long, slender, and growing 

 sharp towards the tail, at the end of which he has three 

 long small whisks of a very dark colour, almost black, 

 and his tail turns up towards his back like a mallard, 

 from whence, questionless, he has his name of the Green- 

 drake. These (as I think I told you before) we commonly 

 dape, or dibble with; and having gathered great store of 

 them into a long draw box, with holes in the cover to 

 give them air, (where also they will continue fresh and 

 vigorous a night or more) we take them out thence by 

 the wings, and bait them thus upon the hook. We first 

 take one, (for we commonly fish with two of them at a 

 time,) and putting the point of the hook into the thickest 



