CHAP. VIII.] 



THE SECOND DAT. 



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4. We have also this month a Harry-long-legs, 1 the body, 

 made of bear's dun and blue 

 M r ool mixed, and a brown 

 hackle-feather over all. 



Lastly, in this month all 

 the same browns and duns 

 are taken, that were taken 

 in May. 2 



SEPTEMBEE. 



This month the same flies 

 are taken, that are taken in 

 April. 



1. To which I shall only 

 add a Camel-brown Fly; the 

 dubbing pulled out of the 

 lime of awall,whippedabout 

 with red silk, and a darkish- 

 gray mallard's feather for 



i J a, natural fly ; &, artificial fly. 



the wing. 



2. And one other, for which we have no name, but it is 

 made of the black hair of a badger's skin, mixed with the 

 yellow softest down of a sanded-hog. 3 



OCTOBEE. 

 The same flies are taken this month that were takeninMarch. 



1 HARRY-LONG-LEGS or SPIDER-FLY (Tipula oleracea). Rennie places this 

 fly in July, and observes that it is much too large, except in dark water or 

 windy weather, or on rough currents. Hawkins says, it is taken in June, 

 chiefly on a cloudy windy day ; and adds, "I have formerly, in the rivers near 

 London, had great success, fishingwith a long line, and the head of this insect 

 only. " Their mode of making the artificial fly differs, we therefore annex both : 



Hawkins's way. Made of lightish brown hair and dunnish hackle ; add 

 a few hairs of light -blue mohair, and a little fox-down ; warp with light- 

 gray or pale-blue silk ; the head Large. 



Rennie's way. The body, dubbed with bear's hair or fox-cub down, 

 whipped with yellowish or reddish silk ; the wings, from a partridge or 

 landrail's feather. Hook No. 6. 



2 The palmer-hackles are still effective throughout the whole of August ; 

 the moths also will still be found killing in the evening of warm days. In 

 the early and middle parts of the month, if sultry, the blue-blow, a very 

 small blue fly, which looks like a black morsel of wool or lump of soot on 

 the water, often very killing. ELAINE. 



3 Add for September : LITTLE BLUE DUN. Dubbing, of the down of 



