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fly, or hawthorn-fly, is to be had, on any hawthorn bush 

 after the leaves be come forth. With these and a short 

 line, as I showed to angle for a chub you may dape or dop ; 

 and also with a grasshopper ; behind a tree, or in any deep 

 hole ; still making it to move on the top of the water, as if 

 it were alive ; and still keeping yourself out of sight, you 

 shall certainly have sport if there be trouts ; yea, in a hot 

 day, but especially in the evening of a hot day, you will 

 have sport. 



On the Lea : The Stop, Chingford. 



And now, scholar ; my direction for fly-fishing is ended 

 with this shower, for it has done raining. And now look 



which grow on the boughs of large oaks, commonly called oak-apples. 

 Several of these balls had been gathered in the winter and brought 

 into the house ; in each was found the cannon fly, some of which, being 

 enlivened by the warmth of the room, immediately took flight, and fixed in 

 the window with the head downwards, the position they observe on the 

 trees." 



This discovery, by which the formation of galls is accounted for, as 

 well as the substances above mentioned, was made long ago by Malpighi ; 

 who had, with great diligence, attended to the operations of insects in the 

 act of depositing their eggs : and, in his treatise "De Grallis," he describes 

 the hollow instrument, wherewith many flies are provided, with which 

 they perforate the tegument of leaves, fruits, or buds, and through the 

 hollow of it inject their eggs into the wounds which they have made, 

 where, in process of time, they hatch and are nourished : and this he 



