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of your left hand, take your silk with the riiz;ht, and 

 \ twisting it betwixt the linger and thumb of that hand, 

 the dubbing will spin itself about the silk ; which, 

 when it has so done, whip it about the armed hook, 

 I backward, until you come to the setting on the wings j 

 i and then take the feather for the wings, and divide it 

 equally in two parts, and turn them back towards the 

 bend, the one on the one side, and the other on the 

 I other, of the shank, holding them fiist in that posture, 

 ! betwixt the fore-finger and thumb of your left hand ; 

 which done, wrap them down so as to stand slopingly 

 |i towards the bend of the hook, and warped up to the 

 f ends of the shanks. Hold the fly fast between. the 

 li finger and thumb of your left hand, and take the silk 

 betwixt the finger and thumb of your right hand, and 

 where the warping ends, pinch or nip with the thumb- 

 nail against your finger, and strip away the remainder 

 of the dubbing from the silk ; and then, with the 

 bare silk, whip it once or twice about, to make the 

 wings stand in due order, then fasten, and cut it ofFj 

 after which, with the point of a needle, raise up the dub- 

 bing gently from the warp 3 twitch off the superfluous 

 hairs of your dubbing ; leave the wings of an ecjual 

 length, or else your fly will never swim true. The 

 Angler ^^ ill perceive, by this description of making an 

 artificial fly, he has ten rules to observe : first, how to 

 hold the hook and line ; secondly and thirdly, how to 

 whip around the bare hook, and join hook and line ; 

 fourthly, how to put on the wings j fifthly, how to 

 twirl and lap on the dubbing ; sixthly, how to work 



