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up tlie shaiilv upon the dubbing, stopping every 

 second turn, and holding what you have wound 

 tight with your left fingers, whilst with the needle 

 you pick out the fibres you will unavoidably 

 take in; proceed in this manner till you come to 

 the place where you lirst fastened, and where an 

 end of the silk is: then clip off those fibres of 

 the liackle whicli you held between your finger 

 and thumb, close to the stem, and hold the stem 

 close to the hook, afterwards take the silk in your 

 right hand, and whip the stem very fast to the 

 hook: then make up a loop, and fasten it tiglit: 

 take your pen-knife and if that part of the stem 

 next the shank of tlie hook is as long as the part 

 of tlic hook which is bare, paie it fine, wax your 

 silk, and bind it neatly on the remaining bare 

 part of the hook : then fasten the silk tight, and 

 spjead some shoemaker's wax very lightly on 

 your last binding; after that clip off the ends 

 of the remaining: silk, both at the shank and tiie 

 bend of the hook, and all fibres that start or stand 

 ill-conditioned, and the whole is completed. 



This is called the palmer Jiij or plain hackle and 

 may, instead of the ostrich's feather above-men- 

 tioned, be dubbed with black spaniels fur, and is 

 a very excellent killer. There are three piore 

 palmers, which are all to be made in the same 

 manner as I have laid down, only with diflerent 

 ariicles, which are follows : 



GREAT PALJIERj OR HACKLE. 



Dubbed the same as the plain hackle with the 

 strands of an ostrich's feather, or a black spaniel's 

 fur, and warped with red peacock's hackle, un- 

 trimmed, that is, leaving the whole length of the 

 hackle staring out (for sometimes the fibres of the 



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