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AMERICAN GAME FISHES. 



This is the way: Fig. 24 represents the hook tied on and 

 secured by means of a half-hitch (A). The tying silk is then 

 run up by wide coils toward the end of the shank. Next, two 

 slips of feather taken from two feathers from the right and 



Fig. 24. 



left wings of a bird are laid on each other so that they are of 

 one size perfectly. They are then taken between the left 

 forefinger and thumb and arranged by side of the hook as 



shown in fig. 25. Whilst in this position the silk is passed 

 round them (they are still lying flat) and as the finger and 

 thumb grasps them somewhat tightly the thread is drawn 

 tight and the ends are whipped down the shank as shown at 

 fig. 26. 



The next operation is to form the body. Suppose, for 

 example, it is to be yellow silk ribbed with silver tinsel and 

 brown hackle tail — the silver tinsel A is tied in first, then the 

 floss silk (cable silk is good) B, and next the three fibers of 

 cock's hackle at C, fig. 26. Then the silk is rolled up tapcr- 

 ingly, and fastened off by the whipping silk; then the silver 



