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be made on a single hook, only smaller ; a real 

 maggot, Wasp-grub, or Caddis, being put on 

 the point. 



Fig. 4. is intended to represent the Green 

 Drake as it issues from its grub state. I 

 make it either on a double- brazed hook, similar 

 to those on which the larger palmers are 

 commonly made, or with a loose triple hook, 

 in the manner of fig. 1. The hook, or wire, as 

 the case may be, is leaded. The body is of 

 pale, dirty-yellow, silk chenille, as fine as can 

 be procured, ribbed with brown silk, or a fibre 

 from the common cock pheasant's tail. The wing 

 is the usual mallard's feather stained a greenish- 

 yellow, and so put on as to lie close to the 

 body ; just the contrary of what it is after it 

 has once risen to the surface of the water. 

 Wind on a speckled ginger feather for legs, 

 and he is finished. 



Having mentioned the Green Drake, it may 

 perhaps benefit the amateur fly-maker to tell 

 him that the best dye for the May-fiy's wing, 

 with which I am acquainted, is the outer and 

 inner bark of the young shoots of the Barberry. 



