it down the body until it is oppofite 

 the 'point of the hook, there fatten it, 

 -and your fly is complete. 



When frnall, or tender hackles arc 

 ufed, fuch as partridge's or woodcock's, 

 they may be whipped three or four 

 times around the upper end of the 

 fhank, and there fattened ; after which 

 drefs the body down to its proper place, 

 and fatten it. If an hackle is fo fhort 

 that you cannot conveniently hold it, 

 tic a piece of wa^ed (ilk to it. 



To make a FLY with WINGS. 

 Whip your hook as before directed, 

 lay the feather you have provided for 

 the wings upon the fhank, with the 

 points towards the bent, the roots arc 

 confecjuently upwards; fatten it on the 

 top of the fhank firmly by four or five 

 turns of the filk ; raife the feather from 

 the fhank, and divide it in two equal parts ; 

 then bring back between the wings, 

 the root ends of the feather, and fatten 

 them. Drcfs your dubbing to the pro- 

 per length of the body, and fatten it. 



Where 



