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We now come to figure 3. I have taken a few turns of my 

 wrapping-silk up the shank to C, and followed it with the 

 floss, increasing the bulk of the body somewhat towards the 

 upper end. I have also fastened the end of the floss, and tied 

 in the tip end of a ginger hackle with three turns of my 

 wrapping-silk, the under part of the hackle being uppermost, 

 so that, in winding it on, the back of it will lie next to the 

 hook. I ought to have stroked the fibres of the hackle back 

 towards the root of the feather ; it is my usual custom. If 

 you use the spring-pliers, grasp the butt end of the hackle 

 between its jaws ; its chief use is in holding the hackle in 

 place, by its pendent weight, when you have occasion to let 

 it go, or in fastening off. 



Now for figure 4. You see I have wound the hackle on 



carefully to nearly the head of the hook. I have fastened it 



with three turns of my silk, and nipped off the surplus end 



of the hackle. Now I lay the wrapping-silk DD on the 



shank of the hook, and form the loop DF, and then take 



three turns with the slack F, wrapping over the end DD 



towards the head of the hook, and, holding it down securely 



with the finger and thumb of my left hand, I take hold of 



the end D which you see sticking out to the left, and draw 



in the slack FD, and cut it off. If the fibres of the hackle 



stick out irregularly, pointing in different directions and 



f 

 looking wild, like a little boy's head when he gets up in the 



morning, I take my large darning-needle and "order them 



aright." 



I have a phial of varnish not larger than the end of my 

 finger sitting on the table ; there is a sharp little stick thrust 

 through the cork ; I now pull out the cork, and touch the 

 head of the fly with a drop of shellac on the end of the 

 stick, and lay it by to dry. 



You will no doubt notice that in drawing the fourth figure 



