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the under side of the hook, just before the 

 pointed end of the whalebone, and there 

 secure them. These will, when all is con- 

 cluded, form the legs. Having previously cut 

 the fibres from a small red hackle, which has 

 been died brown, in the same manner you before 

 cut the black hackle, double it, and fasten on 

 the two ends, almost close to the eye of the 

 shank. This is to form the horns ; and you will 

 now have fig. 5. Work back the silk to the 

 tail end, and there fasten near the bend of the 

 hook — upon the hook itself, not upon the 

 whalebone — a strip of feather half an inch wide, 

 from a hen's wing which is of a ruddy brown, 

 or a similar coloured feather from the peacock's 

 wing. Tie it on by the points, having the 

 inside of the feather uppermost (fig. 6.). Take 

 three or four strands of black ostrich, and fasten 

 them directly upon the spot where the feather 

 was secured (fig. 7.). Continue the silk, with 

 which you are working over the whalebone, till 

 you reach the legs, and leave it hanging there 

 down. Wind the strands of ostrich over the 

 whalebone, and fasten them where the silk was 



