413 



And now, sir, that we are 

 - : entering into the month of May, 

 I think it requisite to beg not 

 only your attention, but also 

 your best patience ; for I must 

 now be a little tedious with you, 

 and dwell upon this month longer 



than ordinary: which, that you may the better endure, I must 

 tell you, this month deserves and requires to be insisted on, 

 forasmuch as it alone, and the next following, afford more 

 pleasure to the fly-angler, than all the rest. And here it is 

 that you are to expect an account of the Green-drake, and 

 Stone-fly, promised you so long ago, and some others that 

 are peculiar to this month, and part of the month following ; 

 and that, though not so great either in bulk or name, do 

 yet stand in competition with the two before named : and 

 so that it is yet undecided, amongst the anglers, to which of 

 the pretenders to the title of the May-fly, it does properly, 

 and duly belong. 1 Neither dare I, where so many of the 



1 To the Ephemera vulgata, now commonly called the May-fly and green 

 drake. ED. 



