50 HOW TO TIE FLIES. 



rapidly, from any strain that could be caused by 

 imperfect balance. A piece of stout thread or 

 fine twine, waxed for preference, with a knot at 

 either end, to keep it from untwisting, completes 

 the apparatus. 



Since the first publication of these pages in the 

 Fishing Gazette, the manufacture of this machine 

 has been taken up by Messrs. Holtzapffel, of 

 64, Charing Cross, London, from whom they may 

 now be purchased. They can be had to order, 

 either in copper or japanned tin, the price in the 

 first named metal being fourteen, and in the latter, 

 nineteen shillings. 



The feathers to be dyed are placed in the 

 colander, which is then successively immersed in 

 the soda bath, dye bath, and mordant bath, and 

 washed under the tap when necessary. After the 

 mordant bath and final washing, the lid is fitted 

 on the colander, the colander placed in its frame, 

 with the shaft accurately inserted in the step, 

 and, finally, the bearing rod slid into place. The 

 closed-in side, or shield, of the frame should be 

 turned towards the operator, and the handle 

 should then be on his left side, and partially above 

 the lid of the colander. It should be grasped in 

 the second, third, and fourth fingers of the left 

 hand, leaving the thumb and forefinger free for 

 other work. 



One end of the string should now be taken 

 firmly in the right hand, and held more lightly a 

 few inches lower down, between the finger and 

 thumb of the left. A quick turn of the right 

 hand round that part of the shaft which protrudes 

 through the bearing now passes the string firmly 

 once around it. The end of the string held in the 

 right hand is then pulled slowly at first, and 

 rapidly at the finish the string being allowed to 

 slide through the finger and thumb of the left 

 hand, but a small tension being all the while sus- 



