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warped with purple silk ; fur picked out to represent legs. 

 This fly cannot be dressed too fine. It is seldom seen in 

 mild weather, but numbers appear on cold days. It is an 

 excellent killer. Limerick hook, No. 0. May. 



98. THE GRAVEL-FLY. Wings, from the wing-feather of 

 the cuckoo's mate, the goat-sucker, or night-jar, or the 

 woodcock ; body, lead-coloured silk for the lower and mid- 

 dle parts, and a strip of black ostrich's herl for the thick 

 part near the shoulders, round which a small grizzled hackle 

 should be twisted twice. Limerick hook, No. 1. Morning 

 until evening. It continues about three weeks from its first 

 appearance, and is a very delicate fly, and not often seen on 

 cold days, which is probably the best time to use it, (Plate 

 vi. xcix.) April and May. 



99. THE GRANNAM, OR GREEN TAIL. Wings, to lie flat, 

 of the clouded feather of the partridge, but the best is from 

 the hen pheasant; body, the dark fur of the hare's ear 

 mixed with a little blue mole's fur ; the tail, from the green 

 herl of the eye of a peacock's feather, or a small piece of 

 green wax, of the size of a pin's head, is the best represen- 

 tation of nature ; legs, a yellow grizzle or pale ginger hackle. 

 With a woodcock's feather over the same body it may be 

 dressed as a hackled-fly, but it does not answer so well. 

 I have known a piece of grass used for the tail, and a 

 nice dish of trout taken with it. Limerick hook, No. 2, 

 (Plate vi. c.) April. 



100. THE HAWTHORN-FLY. Wings, transparent, and may 

 be made from the palest feather of a snipe or mallard's 

 wing ; (some use horn shavings, or the hard substance which 

 is found in the core of an apple.) I have used, with success, 

 the thin hard substance taken from the side of a goose's 

 quill after the feather had been stripped away ; this, if nicely 

 taken off, is an exact resemblance of the wing of the natural 

 fly; body, a black ostrich's herl; legs, a black hackle. 

 Limerick hook, No. 2 or 3, (Plate v. ci.) March, April, 

 and May. 



101. THE SUMMER DUN. Wings, from a woodpigeon ; 

 body, mole's fur, ribbed with ash-coloured silk; legs, an 



