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oblerved, are the Ground of all Fly- Angling, 

 The former are to be thus made. 



You mud arm your Hook with the Line in 

 the Infide of it ; firil whipping your Silk two 

 or three Times about the bare Hook : Then 

 take your Sciffars^ and cut fo much of a brown 

 Mallard's Feather as in your own Judgment 

 will make the Wings of it ^ having regard 

 to the Bignefs or Smallnefs of your Hook : 

 Then lay the outmoft Part of your Feather 

 next to your Hook, and the Point of your Fea- 

 ther next the Shank of your Hook ; and hav- 

 ing fo done, whip it three or four Times about 

 the Hook with the lame Silk, with which your 

 Hook was armed, and having made the Silk 

 fad, take the Hackle of a Cock or Capon's 

 Neck, or a Plover's Top, which is ufually 

 better ; ftrip^ off one Side of the Feather, 

 and then take the Hackle^ Silk, or Crewel, 

 Gold or Silver Thready and naake thefe tall at 

 the Bent of the Hook, that is, below your 

 Arming. You mufl take the Hackle, the 

 /liver or gold Thread, and work it up to the 

 Wings, fhifting or flill removing your Finger, 

 as you turn the Silk about the Hook : And 

 ftill looking, ateveryTurn, that your Gold, or 

 what Materials foever you make your Fly of, 

 lies right and neatly, which if you find they 

 do, when you have made the Head, faften all, 

 and then work yowr Hackle up to the Head, 

 and make thatfaft alfo : Then with a Needle 

 or Pin divide the Wing into two, and with the 

 arming Silk whip it about crofs-ways betwixt 



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