THE SECOND DAY. 



(Continued.) 



CHAPTER VII. 



FISHING AT THE TOP FLIES FOR THE MONTHS OF JANUARY, FEBRUARY, 

 MARCH, APRIL, AND PART OF MAY ; INCLUDING, UNDER MAY, PARTICULAR 

 DIRECTIONS HOW TO BAIT WITH THE GREEN-DRAKE. 



Viat. Come, sir ! having now well dined, and being again 

 set in your little house, I will now challenge your promise, 

 and entreat you to proceed in your instruction for fly-fishing: 

 which, that you may be the better encouraged to do, I will 

 assure you that I have not lost, I think, one syllable of what 

 you have told me ; but very well retain all your directions 

 both for the rod, line, and making a fly, and now desire an 

 account of the flies themselves. 



Pise. Why, sir, I am ready to give it you, and shall have 

 the whole afternoon to do it in, if nobody come in to inter- 

 rupt us : for you must know, besides the unfitness of the 

 day, that the afternoons so early in March signify very little 

 to angling with a fly ; though with a minnow, or a worm, 

 something might, I confess, be done. 



To begin then where I left off. My father Walton tells 

 us but of twelve artificial flies, to angle with at the top, and 



