34 OF TACKLE. 



4. Run the remnant (c, d) round the shank, 

 as far as B, and make it fast there with the 

 thread A B ; then wind the gold twist (e, f) 

 over the coils made by c, d in the manner shown 

 in fiof. 4, and make it fast also with the thread 

 A B. This completes the body. 



5. Bring the butt end of the red hackle 

 stained amber colour into the position shown in 

 fig. 5, tie it there by means of the well-waxed 

 thread, A B, and cut off the projecting piece (G) 

 of the hackle. 



6. Wind the other part of the hackle, B H, 

 fig. 5, two or three times round the upper end 

 of the body, and bind it tightly and neatly there 

 with A B, and in such manner that the fibres 

 may stand as shown in fig. 6. This represents 

 the legs. 



7. Take two pieces, as shown in fig. 6, from 

 the under covert feather of a starling's wing, and 

 bind them on (with the butt end towards the 

 top of the shank) firmly and neatly, at nearly 

 the same place B (a little nearer to the top of 

 the shank). Part them, if you choose ; snip off 

 the butt ends obliquely, bind the short stumps 

 down upon the shank (so that they may not be 

 seen), and fasten off. You will now possess a 

 Great Red Spinner complete, provided always 

 that you have seen a little more of the art than 

 you have here read, and that you have been 

 yourself a tolerably good duhbiiig -spinner . 



