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drake. I shall, however, inform you how it 

 was made. The hook was one of the smallest 

 of the sort which we here call gilse-hooks ; 

 I made the body of a kind of silk trimming, 

 called floss, of a dull, willow-green color, 

 mixed with a little brown crulling ; it was 

 ribbed with bright brown silk, and the wings 

 were formed of dappled feather of a silver 

 pheasant; the whisk consisted of three black 

 hairs from the tail of a shepherd's dog. 

 When the water is rather discolored, as it 

 was yesterday, I never find any fly do more 

 execution. I reached the water side a little 

 before six in the morning, and I fished till 

 nine o'clock. 



Oliver. What sort of fly do you prefer 

 when the water is clear ? 



Reed. I then form the body of brown 

 floss, mixed with a little bear's fur of a darker 

 shade, and wrap it with dark purple, or 

 lake-colored silk; the wings are formed of 

 the yellowish-brown feathers of a dotterel, 

 with the whisk as in the other, and some- 



