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dun, with a little blue and yellow mixed with it, a large 

 dun wing, and two horns at the head, made of the hairs of a 

 squirrel's tail. 



9. The next is the Cow-lady, a little fly ; 1 the body of a 

 peacock's feather, the wing of a red feather, or strips of the 

 red hackle of a cock. 



10. We have then the Cow-dung fly ; the dubbing light- 

 brown and yellow mixed, the wing the dark gray feather of 

 a mallard. And note, that besides these above-mentioned, 

 all the same hackles and flies, the hackles only brighter, and 

 the flies smaller, that are taken in April, will also be taken 

 this month, as also all browns and duns. And now I come 

 to my Stone-fly, and Green-drake, which are the Matadores L> 

 for trout and grayling ; and, in their season, kill more fish 

 in our Derbysire rivers, than all the rest, past and to come, 

 in the whole year besides. 



But first I am to tell you, that we have four several flies 

 which contend for the title of the May-fly : namely, 



The Green-drake, 



The Stone-fly, 



The Black-fly, and 



The Little Yellow May-fly. 



And all these have their champions and advocates to 

 dispute, and plead their priority ; though I do not under- 

 stand why the two last-named should, the first two having 

 so manifestly the advantage, both in their beauty, and the 

 wonderful execution they do in their season. 



11. Of these, the Green-drake comes in about the 

 twentieth of this month, or betwixt that and the latter end, 

 for they are sometimes sooner, and sometimes later, 



crewel ; warp with yellow or green : wing, of a land-rail. Towards the 

 evening of a showery day, this is a great killer. H. 



1 Not a fly exactly, though it has wings, but the little roundish, reddish 

 beetle, with black spots, otherwise called a lady-bird (Coccinella). 

 EENNIE. 



2 Matadores (Sp. murderers), the winning cards at the Court game of 

 Quadrille : 



Now move to war the sable matadores. Pope. 



