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the Wings *, and laftly, you mud with your 

 Thumb turn the Point of the Feather towards 

 the Bent of the Hook •, then, having viewed 

 the Proportion, if all be neat, faften, and you 

 have done •, or trim off the Superfluities with 

 your Sciffars. 



It is in reality true, what Mr. TValton fays, 

 that no Diredions can be given to teach a Man 

 of a dull Capacity to make a i7>'well : And 

 yet, even thefe Diredlions, with a little Prac- 

 tice, will help an ingenious Angler in a great 

 Degree. But to fee a Fly made by an Artjfl, 

 is the beft Inllrudlion ; after which the Angler 

 may walk by the River, and mark what 

 Flies fall on the Water that Day, and catch 

 one of them, if he fee the Tr<?///j leap at a i^/y 

 of that Kind ; And then, having always 

 Hooks ready hung with him, and alio a Bag 

 with Bears Hair^ the Hair of a brown or fad- 

 coloured Heifer^ Hackles of a Cock or Capon^ 

 feveral Colours of Silk and Crewel to make the 

 Body of thf Fly^ and Feathers of 3, Drake' i 

 Head^ black or brown Sheep's JVoolU or hlog^s 

 WoolU or Hair, Threads of Geld and of Sihcr^ 

 and likevvife other coloured Feathers, both of 

 littl? Birds 3iud fpeckled Fowl -, having thefe, I 

 fay, with him in a Bag, let him try to make a 

 Fly^ and though he mifs at flrft, yet with a 

 little Pradlice he will hit it better, and even 

 to great Perfedlion. When he can once make 

 his Fly right, and have the Luck to light where 

 there is Store of Trout s, a dark Day, and a 

 right Wind, he will catch fuch Qiiarstities 



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