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2. The double winged J!y, expanded. 



3. The single winged hackle, expanded with, or with- 

 out, a body. 



4. The palmer hackle-, which has no wings, but should 

 resemble the hairy caterpillar. 



I make no particular mention of moths, as a separate 

 kind, because they are all of the second class, and differ 

 only in being made of yellowish, mealy- looking feathers; 

 such as are taken from the white owl, &c. 



FIRST CLASS. THE LARGE FLY WITH WINGS Is 

 made, by first lapping a few turns on the butt of your 

 hook with well-waxed silk, which should correspond in 

 colour with the body of the fly; then taking a bunch of 

 such feathers as you mean for the wings (cat from the 

 stem, or centre rib, of the feather)} lay them pointing for- 

 wards, and very even at their butts, and fix them with 

 two or three turns of your silk : now take some mohair, 

 or if that be not attainable, some very fine lambs' ivool, 

 or rabbit Jleece, or any other soft substance of the colour 

 you wish the body to be, and laying it very thinly all 

 around your silk, twist them a little together, so that 

 they may lay tolerably smooth. Now proceed to lap the* 

 silk so prepared round your hook, very light and close > 

 making it thicker or thinner in various parts,, according to 

 the shape of the fly you imitate. 



When you have made it of a due length down the 

 shank of the hook, make two half-hitches (or half-knots, 

 as some call them) -, then having stripped off one side of 

 the plumage from such a feather as will answer for legs, 

 and leaving a little on both sides at the point to be tied in, 

 wet such tip, that it may be compact, and with your 



silk, 



