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want of such convenience, he will make shift with the hol- 

 low of a bank, or any other place where the wind cannot 

 come to fetch him off. His body is long, and pretty thick, 

 and as broad at the tail, almost, as in the middle: his 

 colour a very fine brown, ribbed with yellow, and much 

 yellower on the belly than the back: he has two or 

 three whisks also at the tag of his tail, and two little 

 horns upon his head: his wings, when full grown, are 

 double, and flat down his back, of the same colour, but 

 rather darker than his body, and longer than it, though 

 he makes but little use of them ; for you shall rarely see 

 him flying, though often swimming and paddling with 

 several feet he has under his belly, upon the water, with- 

 out stirring & wing. But the Drake will mount steeple- 

 height into the air; though he is to be found upon flags 

 and grass too, and indeed every where, high and low, near 

 the river; there being so many of them in their season 

 as, were they not a very inoffensive insect, would look 

 like a plague : and these drakes (since I forgot to tell you 

 before, I will tell you here) are taken by the fish to that 

 incredible degree, that upon a calm day you shall see the 

 still deeps, continually, all over circles by the fishes 

 rising, who will gorge themselves with those flies, till they 

 purge again out of their gills: ' and the Trouts are at that 

 time so lusty and strong, that one of eight or ten inches 

 long will then more struggle and tug, and more endanger 

 your tackle, than one twice as big in winter. But pardon 

 this digression. . 



This Stone-fly then we dape or dibble with as with the 

 Drake, but with this difference, that whereas the Green- 

 Drake is common both to stream and still, and to all hours 

 of the day, we seldom dape with this bat in the streams, 



(I) I have canght Trout to full of then, that, in taking hjm off the hook, 

 have prut oat or bis throat a lump of then a* big as a walnut. 



