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in making this fly well, he may consider him- 

 self entitled to the highest honours of our 

 angling academy. To obtain them he must 

 execute as follows: Having put on the wings 

 in the usual way, he must fasten directly under 

 them, with one lap of silk, his twist ; he must 

 fasten by the side of his twist the hackle, with 

 one lap of silk also; he must then cut the 

 ends of the twist and hackle away, those ends, 

 of course, which point in the direction of the 

 bend ; then the dubbing must be placed on the 

 silk and twisted round it, and after that 

 twisted round the hook in sufficient quantity 

 to form the body ; over the dubbing he must 

 lap the twist two or three times, and then both 

 over dubbing and twist, close to the wings of 

 the fly, let the hackle be lapped three times; 

 he must fasten the point of the hackle with 

 one whip of the silk, and then clip off what 

 remains of the point of the hackle. He must 

 now whip the silk twice or thrice towards the 

 bend, and over that he must make two laps 

 with the twist ; he must now with a single loop- 

 knot of the silk fasten down the twist, and cut 

 off what remains of the twist. The whole must 

 be fastened and finished by making too loop- 

 knots with the silk at the bend. 



The operations described in this rule are 

 necessary to make the dun-drake, or March- 



