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Spider Fly : Lead-coloured silk for body ; 

 for legs, a wood- cock's hackle, wrapped three 

 or four times round the hook. 



Lest some of our readers may think this 

 mode of dressing this fly too simple, we give 

 the way recommended by Mr. Ronalds : 

 Body, dark-dun, or lead-coloured silk thread 

 dressed very fine ; wings, from the underside of 

 a feather of the wood-cock's wing; legs, a 

 black cock's hackle rather long, wound twice, 

 only round the body. 



Iron Blue : Body of the blue fur of the 

 water-rat or monkey, warped on with purple 

 silk, and afterwards neatly picked out. Wings, 

 from a torn-tit's tail. An excellent fly. 



Another Dark Dun : Body, a small quan- 

 tity of the blue fur of a water-rat warped on 

 with yellow silk; legs, a blue-dun hackle; 

 wings, of the feather from under the water-hen's 

 wing. If delicately dressed, a very killing fly. 



Another sort of Palmer : Body, brown pea- 

 cock's herl ; legs, a dark-red hackle. To be 

 dressed with red silk. 



