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wing, "wliicli may be slightly stained in onion 

 dye. 



Legs. If a sufficient quantit}^ of dubbing 

 cannot be picked out for the legs, two or three 

 turns of a Ginger Dun hackle can be added, and 

 will help to keep the wings upright. Put these 

 on last, whipping them on the bare hook, and 

 finish at the head. Hook No. 2, Grayling. 



Eemarks. This elegant fly kills well till June 

 made as follows : Body of yellow silk waxed, 

 with a very little Blue Dun fur from rat, mouse, 

 mole, or rabbit, spun upon the silk so that the 

 yellow shows through. Body tapering from 

 shoulder to tail. 



Legs. A Honey Dun hackle ; four or five 

 turns. 



Wings. A starling's quill feather, put on 

 last, on the bare hook, so as to stand up boldly. 



Thus made, it is a good Fly for Parr} When 

 you can put this fly together well you have 

 reason to hope you are improving : for the Duns 

 are delicate insects to imitate. Wax j'our silk 

 lightly. 



^ It is now illegal to take parr. "Whether the law would not 

 attain its object better by strengthening its provisions against 

 the destruction of gravid salmon rather than by prohibiting the 

 catching by rod and line of any out of the innumerable millions 

 of parr which swarm in our salmon rivers, many of which must 

 in any case be hooked and injured by the trout fisher, may be 

 questioned. To allow a rod-fisherman to take a reasonable 

 number — saj', adozen or so in a day — would not affect the stock 

 of any river. — Ed. 10th edit. 



