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5. There is also a Yellow Dun, the dubbhig of camel's hair, and yellow 

 camlet, or wool, mixt, and a white-grey wing. 



6. There is also this month another Little Brown, besides that 

 mentioned before, made with a very slender body ; the dubbing of dark 

 brown and violet camlet, mixt, and a grey wing ; which, though the 

 direction for the making be near the other, is yet another fiy, and will 

 take when the other will not, especially in a bright day and a clear 

 water. ^ 



7. About the twentieth of this month comes in a fly called the Horse- 

 flesh Fly ; the dubbing of which is a blue mohair, with pink-coloured 

 and red tammy mixt, a light coloured wing, and a dark bte-wn head. This 

 fly is taken best in an evening, and kills from two hours before sunset till 

 twilight, and is taken the month through. 



MAY. 



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, 

 afiford 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 eitlier in bulk or name, do yet stand in com- 

 petition 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. Neither dare I, where 

 so many of the learned in this art of angUng are got in dispute 

 about the controversy, take upon me to determine ; but I think I 

 ought to have a vote amongst them, and according to that privilege 

 shall give you my free opinion, and peradventure when I have 

 told you all, you may incline to think me in the right. 



Viator. I have so great a deference to your judgment in these 

 matters, that I must always be of your opinion ; and the more 

 you speak, the faster I grow to my attention, for I can never be 

 weary of hearing you upon this subject. 



PiSCATOR. Why, that's encouragement enough ; and now 

 prepare yourself for a tedious lecture ; but I will first begin with 

 the flies of less esteem, though almost anything will take a Trout 

 in May, that I may afterwards insist the longer upon those ot 

 greater note and reputation. Know, therefore, that the first fly 

 we take notice of in this month is called — 



