FLY MAKING. 33 



1. Take a piece of very fine round gut, and 

 singe it in a candle at one extremity, in order 

 that it may be less liable to slip after being tied 

 to the hook, previously ivaxed. Then holding a 

 fine silk thread lightly waxed with soft shoe- 

 maker's wax, A B C D, plate 3, fig. 1, in one 

 hand, whip a part of it three or four times round 

 the end of the shank of the hook, beginning to 

 whip at B, and leaving a few inches of thread at 

 A B hanging down, with a pair of forceps, or 

 little weight at the end of it. 



2. Hold the burnt end E, fig. 2, of the gut 

 E C F, in contact with the shank of the hook, and 

 wind tightly the portion of thread, CD of fig. 1, 

 first once or twice round the <?ut close to the end 

 of the shank, fig. 2, and then over the portion 

 of gut C E, the three or four coils B C, already 

 made, and the shank of the hook, C B E, leaving 

 out the piece of thread, A B, still hanging down. 



3. Bring two or three stylish whisks from a 

 red hackle into the position shown in fig. 3, 

 and bind them securely there, for the tail, by 

 means of the same end (c, d) of silk as was last 

 used. Bind in, at the same time, the extremity 

 of a piece of fine gold twist (e, f), and also one 

 end of some dubbing of orange and red floss silk 

 mixed. Then spin the floss silk on to the rem- 

 nant (c, d) of thread, and wind it on the shank, 

 or wind it on the shank without spinning. 



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