]1'2 best's art of angling 



back of the shank upwards, and the point towards 



your right hand; then take a strong small silk, 



of' the colour most predominant in the fly you 



intend to make, wax it well with wax of the 



same colour and draw it between vour finaer 



and thumb to the head of the shank, then whip 



it twice or thrice about the bare hook, which 



prevents its slipping, and the shank of the hook 



from cutting the gut: which being done take 



your gut and draw it likewise between your finger 



and thumb, holdini>; the hook so fast as only to 



suffer it to ]:)ass by, till the end of the gut is 



near the middle of the shank of the hook, on 



the inside of it; then whip tlxi silk twice or 



thrice about both gut and hook, as hard as the 



strengthi of the silk will permit; after that take 



tbe wings, which before you began to make your 



By you liad stripped off the stem for its wings, 



and pioporiional to it, and which lie with your 



other materials by you, (as they always should 



before you begin) and place that side downwards 



which grew uppermost before, upon the back 



of the hook, leaving so much only, to serve for 



the length of the wings of the point of the 



plume, laying it reversed from the end of the 



shank upwards, then whip your silk twice or thrice 



about the root-end of the feather, gut, and hook ; 



which being done, clip off the root-end of the 



featlier close by the arming, and then whip the 



silk fast and firm about the hook and gut till you 



come to the bend of it; and then, if the gut 



goes beyond the bend of the hook, cut it oft", 



and make all fast : take then the dubbing which 



is to make the body of your fly, as much as you 



think will do, and holding it lightly with your 



book, between the finger and thumb of your 



left hand^ take the silk with your right hand, 



