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 mixed, a light-coloured wing, and a dark brown head. This fly is taken best in an Evening, and kills from two hours before Sun-set 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, afford 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 either in bulk, or name, do yet stand in competition 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; nei

ther dare I, where so many of the learned in this Art of Angling 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.

VIAT. 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.

PISC. 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 any thing will take a Trout in May, that I may afterwards insist the longer upon those of greater note, and reputation; know therefore, that the first fly we take notice of in this month, is called

1. The TURKEY-FLY, the dubbing ravelled out of some blue stuff, and lapped about with yellow silk, the wings of a gray Mallard's feather.

2. Next a GREAT HACKLE or PALMER FLY, with a YELLOW BODY ribbed with gold twist, and large wings of a Mallard's feather dyed yellow, with a red Capon's Hackle over all.

3. Then a BLACK FLY, the dubbing of a black Spaniel's fur, and the wings of a gray Mallard's feather.

4. After that a LIGHT BROWN with a slender body, the dubbing twirled upon small red silk, and raised with the point of a needle, that the ribs or rows of silk may appear through; the wings of the gray feather of a Mallard.

5. Next a LITTLE DUN, the Dubbing of a Bear's dun whirled upon yellow silk, the wings of the gray feather of a Mallard.

6. Then a WHITE GNAT, with a pale wing, and a black head.

7. There is also this month a fly called the PEACOCK-FLY, the body made of a whirl of a Peacock's feather, with a red head, and wings of a Mallard's feather.

8. We have then another very killing fly, known by the name of the DUN-CUT, the dubbing of which is a Bear's dun, with a little blue and yellow mixed with it; a large dun wing, and two horns at the head, made of the hairs of a Squirrel's tail.

9. The next is the Cow-LADY, a little fly; the body of a Peacock's feather, the wing of a red feather, or strips of the red hackle of a Cock.

10. We have then the Cow-Dung fly; the dubbing light-brown and yellow, mixed, the wing the dark gray feather of a Mallard. And note that besides these above mentioned, all the same Hackles and flies, the Hackles only brighter, and the flies smaller, that are taken in April, will also be taken this month, as also all Browns and Duns: and now I come to my Stone-fly, and Green-Drake,

which are the Matadores for Trout and Grayling, and, in their season, kill more fish in our Derbyshire rivers, than all the rest past, and to come, in the whole year besides.

But first I am to tell you, that we have four several flies which contend for the title of the May-fly, namely,

The GREEN-DRAKE,

The STONE-FLY,

The BLACK-FLY, and

The LITTLE YELLOW MAY-FLY.

And all these have their champions and advocates to dispute, and plead their priority; though I do not understand why the two last-named should; the first two having so manifestly the advantage, both in their beauty, and the wonderful execution they do in their season.

11. Of these, the GREEN-DRAKE comes in about the twentieth of this month, or betwixt that and the latter end; for they are sometimes sooner, and sometimes later, according to the quality of the year; but never well taken till towards the end of this month, and the beginning of June. The Stone-fly comes much sooner, so early as the middle of April; but is never well taken till towards the middle of May, and continues to kill much longer than the Green-Drake stays with us, so long as to the end almost of June; and indeed, so long as there are any of them to be seen upon

the water; and sometimes in an artificial fly, and late at night, or before sun-rise in a morning, longer. :

Now both these flies, and, I believe, many others, though I think not all, are certainly and demonstratively bred in the very rivers where they are taken; our Cadis or Cod-bait, which lie under stones in the bottom of the water, most of them turning into those two flies, and being gathered in the husk, or crust, near the time of their maturity, are very easily known and distinguished, and are of all other the most remarkable, both for their size, as being of all other the biggest, the shortest of them being a full inch long, or more, and for the execution they do, the Trout and Grayling being much more greedy of them than of any others; and indeed, the Trout never feeds fat, nor comes into his perfect season till these flies come in.

Of these, the Green-Drake never discloses from his husk, till he be first there grown to full maturity, body, wings, and all; and then he creeps out of his cell, but with his wings so crimped, and ruffled, by being pressed together in that narrow room, that they are, for some hours, totally useless to him; by which means he is compelled either to creep upon the flags, sedges, and blades of grass, if his first rising from the bottom of the water be near the banks of the river, till the air and sun stiffen and smooth them: or if his first appearance above water happen to be in the middle, he then