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the instructions of Rule 1. Then take your 

 hackle-feather, prepared and placed as pointed 

 out in that rule, and lap your silk once round it 

 and the shank ; place the thick end of your 

 herl (in making the red-palmer, it will be a pea- 

 cock's herl) by the side of your hackle, and 

 whip your silk round the herl, hackle, gut, and 

 shank of the hook, two or three times, according 

 to the size of your hook* and fly; then cut the 

 thick ends of your hackle and herl off; wax 

 your silk anew, and lap the herl five or six 

 times each lap close upon the other 

 towards the bend of the hook ; hold your herl 

 tight between the left-thumb and fore-finger, 

 in the way you are holding the hook; then 

 take the point of the hackle-feather in your 

 right-hand fingers, and wrap it thickly five or 

 six times over the herl in the direction of the 

 bend ; make two laps of your silk over all ; cut 

 away the remaining point of the hackle-feather, 

 and then wrap your herl further on towards the 

 bend twice round the hook, make one lap of 

 your silk over the herl, and cut away all that 

 remains of it. Fasten your silk again wax- 

 ing it anew with two loop-knots near the 



* No. 3 Kendal hook is the best size for palmers fished 

 with on the Dove ; you may use No. 4 or No. 5 in some 

 of the smaller streams of Derbyshire, where larvae and flies, 

 on account of locality and atmosphere, are of a larger 

 growth. 



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