16 The North Country Angler. 



I put in two links of five hairs at the one end, 

 and four at the other, with neat wrapt loops at 

 each end ; these links I make about four feet 

 long. 



In the same partition I have two thin parch- 

 ment covers, square, open at one side, in which 

 I put links about a yard and a half long, some with 

 one, others with two flies at them, to change at 

 pleasure with those on the line; and in two other 

 cases, a dozen or eighteen flies dressed to silk- 

 worm gut, or to three or four hairs. . These 

 four cases, two of which are just the length of 

 the partition, with the two lines and links, 

 are the furniture of the first partition for my 

 strong fly tackle. 



In the next partition I have the same number 

 of lines and links, only the lines have twelve hairs 

 at the top, and three at the bottom, with links 

 and flies suitable to them, only about double the 

 number, because more used than the larger ones ; 

 among these I have some very fine gut, the rest 

 three hairs, or two strong ones. 



In the third partition I have two lines again, 

 a longer and shorter as before, butiiner, ten hairs 

 at top, and two at bottom ; I have no links to 

 lengthen these. All my links are single hairs, 

 with two or three hooks each, about a dozen of 

 these in one case, and a case of flies dubbed, and 

 another of hackles, of a wood cock's wing, &c. 

 In the fourth partition I have some folded papers, 

 near the length of the partition, with feathers, 

 some pulled from the upper side of a woodcock's 

 wing, near the joint, or the same place of a 

 moor-pout, or brown chicken, as your fancy may 



