HOW TO DRESS A WET FLY. 85 



Clip unused tip of hackle, and wind silk 

 towards the right to end of shank. Wind back 

 towards the left till hackle is reached, and then 

 form whip finish as before. 



How TO DRESS A PALMER. 

 The term palmer, as Eonalds tells us, applies 

 primarily to the caterpillars of certain moths, 

 notably to that of the Arctia caja, or garden 

 tiger moth. They are well known in most districts 

 under the name of woolly bears, and are frequently 



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to be seen crawling on the footpath. They are 

 said to make long wanderings, and hence their 

 name, palmer being the term originally applied to 

 pilgrims returned from the Holy Land in the 

 days of the crusades. In fly dressing, however, 

 the term palmer is used in a general way, to denote 

 wingless artificials, hackled all down, or half-way 

 down, the body. Mr. Francis Francis shows, I 

 think, convincingly enough, that the natural 

 palmer cannot be regarded as having a place 

 among the staple foods of the trout, and that the 



