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part of the rubber protected by the gluten is 

 quite unaffected by the dye. 



To make the ribbed body : Moisten the two 

 strips (A and B) with turpentine, lay them to- 

 gether, and stretch them out. They may then 

 be wound on the needle as one strip. The parti- 

 coloured end (E. Fig. 71) should be held in the 

 right hand, the light-coloured end (L. Fig. 71) in 

 the left, and the middle (M) should be laid across 

 the needle, so that, in effect, a parti-coloured 

 piece of rubber is wound over a piece of one colour 

 only. 



To impart to un vulcanised indiarubber an olive 



FIG. 71. 



green colour, it should be treated with ordinary 

 aniline green dye, labelled simply " green " by 

 the makers. The indiarubber has a reddish 

 colour of its own, which just corrects the too 

 metallic shade which the dye naturally produces. 



How TO DKESS A REVERSE WINGED FLY. 



Fix the hook in the vice as usual, and, com- 

 mencing close to the end of the shank, wind two 

 or three open spiral turns towards the left Wind 

 back over these (setting in the gut if dressing 

 flies to gut), and continue till within three turns 

 of the end of the shank. 



Tie in the whisks with two more turns towards 



