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With a grecu body make him, on a middle sized hook, 
But when you have catch’d fish, then play the good cook. 
“ Once more, my good brother, I’ll speak in thy car ; 
Hog’s, red cow’s, and bear’s wool to float best appear ; 
And so doth your fur, if it rightly fall ; 
But always remember, make two, and mhko all.*' 
ft would be equally absurd to name any precise descrip- 
tion of fly for any particular month in this country, and per- 
haps more so, as our weather is more changeable than that 
of any part of Europe. 
There are many kinds of flies used both here and in Eng- 
land, but two descriptions have the preference, and accom- 
pany all Anglers as the universal fly, and are consequently 
necessary requisites to a well arranged Fly-Angler’s estab- 
lishment. The Red Hackle, or Soldier Palmer , and the 
Black Hackle , or Black Palmer , are “ the Flics.” They are 
both made in a variety of ways, with different colored bodies, 
but with the same kind of hackle or legs. The most killing 
kind of the red hackle is made with a red worsted or mohair 
body, wound arouud with gold twist. The black hackle is 
used more particularly in very bright days, when the sun 
shines unobscured by clouds. I.t is made with black worsted 
body, and a black cock’s hackle for legs ; the body is some- 
times wound with silver twist, which iu many streams, at 
pertain times, offers additional attractions to the dainty sub- 
ject of our discourse. They are both made in various ways 
and of various sizes, and are known under different numes. 
The body of the red hackle is sometimes made with crimson, 
black, yellow, green, and various other hues of worsted, for 
bodies; the black, also, with red, white, green, and other 
colors intermingled. They are also made under different 
names with and without wings. 
The White Hackle . or Miller, is a good fly in dark, low- 
ering days. It is made with a white worsted body, and 
