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soon enable you to judge to a nicety of the 

 proper quantity. When you have arrived at the 

 stage of the process at which the materials for 

 the body are to be tied in (viz., after the hook 

 and gut are attached), and have there fastened 

 the silk or other material for rib, if required, 

 take the dubbing and apply its finer end to the 

 bend of the hook, from which the ty ing-silk is 

 depending, and, with the finger and thumb of 

 your right hand, twist the dubbing and the silk 

 together evenly and not tightly, and wind both, 

 thus twisted together, up the shank, to form the 

 body, fastening the hackle in your way upwards, 

 with one turn over its point, at d (Jig. 20.), and 

 continuing to wind the dubbing beyond it to the 

 top of the shank. There, between the gut and 

 shank-top, leave the tying-silk, which you must 

 be careful is now free from any particles of 

 dubbing, or the neatness of the head will be 

 destroyed, and proceed to wind up the rib in the 

 manner before directed for winding the gold twist 

 of the palmer, and fasten it at the head in the 

 same way ; completing the fly by winding the 

 hackle in close coils to the head, and securing it 

 there with half hitches. 



Buzz, as well as wing-flies, generally require 

 whisks, which are intended to imitate the seta or 

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