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Feather Booh. 

 As good feathers are valuable, they should 

 be guarded from the moth, by camphor, Eussia 

 leather, or other preservatives. It is a good 

 way to gum them in rows, in a book, placing a 

 strip of paper over the quills. The most neces- 

 sary feathers are : hackles from the neck of blue 

 dun hens, especially those with a ginger-coloured 

 edffinii : hackles from the neck, and near the tail 

 of game cocks, both red and furnace : hackles 

 from the neck of a black Spanish cock : scapular 

 feathers of the woodcock or grouse : and brown 

 mottled feathers from a partridge's back. These, 

 with wings of the starling, landrail, and hen 

 pheasant, and tail feathers of the wren, with 

 some peacock and ostrich herl, may suffice to 

 begin with. Some grey and brown mottled fea- 

 thers from the wild drake may also be provided. 



Fly Making. 

 Many books, after trying to tell us how to 

 MARE A FLY, vcry justly add, that the art cannot 

 be communicated by writing, the practice must 

 be seen. We shall follow the fashion by way of 

 furnishing a few hints for those who are unable 

 to meet with a friend to direct them.^ 



^ Eyed hooks for flies have of late come into use, chiefly for 

 dry-fly fishing; but many anglers still prefer the- older way 

 of attachment, especially where rapidity of striking is of 

 importance, as it is not in dry-fly fishing. — Ed. 10th edit. 



