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LETTER VI, 

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Dear Sir, 



Having inflru&ed you In 

 my lad the bed method I am acquainted 

 with of preparing your tackle, I mud 

 next inform you what materials are rc- 

 quifite for fly-making, and how to. pro- 

 cure them, (viz.) Hackles plucked from 

 the upper part of the neck of a dun 

 cock in December, obferving to keep the 

 light and dark ones feparate for their dif- 

 ferent ufes. The fame fowl that produces 

 the dark dun hackles in December, wilt 

 in April or May following furnifh you 

 with the grizzle hackle. Such is the 

 effect the air has on thefe feathers, that 

 from March they gradually become paleV 

 until September, when they are caft off; 

 being then a dirty yellow, confequently 

 unfit for ufc, 



Thoi 



