96 FLY-MAKING. 



CHAPTER VI. 



" Next pouch must not fail, 



Stuffed as full as a mail, 



With wax, crewels, silks, hair, furs, and feathers, 

 To make several flies, 

 For the several skies, 

 That shall kill in despite of all weathers.'* 



COTTON. 



WE now proceed to our instructions for the 

 manufacture of artificial flies laying it down 

 at the outset, as a strict condition, that all who 

 honour us by adopting these instructions and 

 expect us to teach what they desire to know, 

 shall follow them implicitly in every particular, 

 and resort to no others unless ours shall have 

 been found to fail ; that one stage of the process 

 shall be thoroughly mastered before proceeding 

 to another; and that these stages be mastered 

 progressively in the order in which we have 

 arranged them. We ask this in justice to our- 

 selves, and will undertake the task of preceptor- 

 ship on such conditions only. 



Before commencing the operative part of fly- 



