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be more yellow on the belly and towards the tail underneath, 

 than in any other part ; and you are to place two or three 

 hairs of a black cat's beard on the top of the hook, in your 

 arming, so as to be turned up, when you warp on your dubbing, 

 and to stand almost upright, and staring one from another : 

 and note that your fly is to be ribbed with yellow silk; and 

 the wings long, and very large, of the dark gray feather of 

 a mallard. 



14. The next May-fly is the Black-fly ; made with a black 

 body, of the whirl of an ostridge-feather, ribbed with silver- 

 twist, and the black hackle of a cock, over all ; and is a 

 killing fly, but not to be named with either of the other. 



15. The last May-fly, that is of the four pretenders, is 

 the little yellow May-fly ; in shape exactly the same with 

 the green-drake, but a very little one, and of as bright a 

 yellow as can be seen ; which is made of a bright yellow 

 camlet, and the wings of a white-gray feather dyed yellow. 



16. The last fly for this month, and which continues all 

 June ; though it comes in in the middle of May, is the fly 

 called the Camlet-fly ; in shape like a moth, with fine 

 diapered, or water-wings, and with which, as I told you 

 before, I sometimes used to dibble ; and grayling will rise 

 mightily at it. But the artificial-fly, which is ouly in use 

 amongst our anglers, is made of a dark-brown shining 

 camlet, ribbed over with a very small light-green silk, the 

 wings of the double-gray feather of a mallard ; and 'tis a 

 killing fly for small fish. And so much for May. 



JUNE. 



From the first to the four-aiid- 

 twentieth, the green-drake and stone- 

 fly are taken, as I told you before. 



1. From the twelfth to the four- 

 aiid-twentieth, late at night, is taken 

 a fly, called the Owl-fly, 1 the dubbing 

 of a white weasel's tail, and a white- 

 gray-wing. 



Moth, or \vl-fly. 



1 WHITE MILLER OR OWL-FLY. The body 

 of white ostrich herl, white hackle, and silver twist, if you please ; wing, 



