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by attaching the hackle near the end of the 

 shank, as shown at Fig. 7 ; or near the bend, as 

 seen in Fig. 12 : 'tis six of one, and half-a-dozen 

 of the other. 



I have now shown the reader, as clearly and 

 concisely as I could, how to dress the usual sorts 

 of trout and grayling flies. The cuts are rather 

 rough ones, because the models were designedly 

 left in a rough state ; lest if they were too much 

 fined down, and finished, the learner, seeing that 

 he could not easily approach their neatness, might 

 be deterred from fly-dressing. When he can tie 

 flies in this passably rough way, he must get 

 finished models those made by Blacker, of 54 

 Dean Street, Soho, being the best I have as yet 

 seen ; and laying them before him, he must pick, 

 trim, and shave his own rough insect statues until 

 he can fashion them as delicately as the most 

 cunning professional artist. If he confide in the 

 sure and steady improving progress which time 

 and perseverance invariably produce, he will 

 become his own complete artist in flies. In ar- 

 ranging the heads of this chapter, Mrs. Little, 

 the wife of Mr. Little, fishing-tackle maker, No. 

 15 Fetter Lane, courteously assisted me. 



