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made-flies? to angle with upon the top of the water. Note, 

 by the way, that the fittest season of using these, is a 

 blustering windy day, when the waters are so troubled that 

 the natural fly cannot be seen, or rest upon them. The 

 first is the dun-fly, in March : 2 the body is made of dun- 

 wool ; the wings of the partridge's feathers. The second is 

 another dun-fly: the body of black wool; and the wings made 

 of the black drake's feathers, and of the feathers under his 

 tail. The third is the stone-fly, in April : the body is made 

 of black wool ; made yellow under the wings and under the 

 tail, and so made with wings of the drake. The fourth is 

 the ruddy-fly, in the beginning of May : the body made ot 

 red wool, wrapt about with black silk ; and the feathers are 

 the wings of the drake ; with the feathers of a red capon, 

 also, which hang dangling on his sides next to the tail. The 

 fifth is the yellow or greenish fly, in May likewise ; the body 

 made of yellow wool ; and the wings made of the red cock's 

 hackle, or tail. The sixth is the black-fly, in May also : the 

 body made of black wool, and lapt about with the herle of a 

 peacock's tail ; the wings are made of the wings of a brown 

 capon, with his blue feathers in his head. The seventh is 

 the sad yellow-fly in June : the body is made of black wool, 

 with a yellow list on either side : and the wings taken off 

 the wings of a buzzard, bound with black braked hemp. 

 The eighth is the moorish-fly ; made, with the body, of 

 duskish wool ; and the wings made of the blackish mail of 

 the drake. The ninth is the tawny-fly, good until the middle 

 of June ; the body made of tawny wool ; the wings made 

 contrary one against the other, made of the whitish mail of 

 the wild drake. The tenth is the wasp-fly in July : the 

 body made of black wool, lapt about with yellow silk ; the 

 wings made of the feathers of the drake, or of the buzzard. 

 The eleventh is the shell-fly, good in mid- July : the body 



1 These are the flies mentioned in Dame Juliana Berners "Book o*. 

 St. Albans." Cotton, in his Chapters vii. and viii., has enumerated above 

 sixty more than are now used. A very complete list, with engraved 

 figures of above forty, is given in Hofland. ED. 



2 The months are here given according to old style, therefore twelve days 

 earlier than now, which must be taken into consideration in adapting flies 

 to seasons. See on this subject a smart rebuke to the editors of Walton, 

 generally, and especially to Sir Harris Nicolas, in the "Angler's Souvenir," 

 p. 129. ED. 



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