CHAPTER VIII. 



FISHING AT THE TOP, CONTINUED FLIES FOR THE END OF MAT, AND FOR 

 THE FOLLOWING MONTHS, TILL DECEMBER ; CONTAINING, UNDER MAY, 

 INSTRUCTIONS WHEN TO DAPE WITH THE STONE-FLY. 



Viat. So, sir, I am uow ready for another lesson, so soon 

 as you please to give it me. 



Pise. And I, sir, as ready to give you the best I can. 

 Having told you the time of the Stone-fly's coming in, and 

 that he is bred of a cadis in the very river where he is taken, 1 

 I am next to tell you, that, 



13. This same Stone-fly has not the patience to continue 

 in his crust, or husk, till his wings be full grown ; but so 

 soon as ever they begin to put out, that he feels himself 

 strong (at which time we call him a Jack) squeezes himself 

 out of prison, and crawls to the top of some stone ; where, 

 if he can find a chink that will receive him, or can creep 

 betwixt two stones, the one lying hollow upon the other 

 (which, by the way, we also lay so purposely to find them) 

 he there lurks till his wings be full grown, 2 and there is 

 your only place to find him ; and from thence doubtless he 

 derives his name : though, for w r ant of such convenience, 

 he will make shift with the hollow of a bank, or any other 



1 See Cb. VII. No. 11 (p. 418). 2 See Tt. I. Ch. XVII. p. 285. 



