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FLY-MAKING. 



Tying on the wing. Holding the hook firmly 

 in your left hand, take the portion of feather thus 

 prepared, by the point b, with the finger and 

 thumb of your right hand, and lay it along the 

 back of the hook in the position shown in fig. 24. 

 While doing this, and 

 before loosening your 

 hold of it, take the 

 hook at the head of 

 the shank with the 

 tips of the same fin- Fi S* 24 - 



gers, and support the hook in this way while you 

 shift your left finger and thumb up close to the 

 end of the wing, that is, getting the whole of the 

 fly between the points of your finger and thumb, 

 except the shank-top and the superfluous portion 

 of the wing projecting beyond it. Pass the tying- 

 silk over the wing, at the place which you had 

 previously indented with your thumb-nail in pre- 

 paring the wing, viz. at b, fig. 24. Draw the silk 

 tightly down, and the 

 fly will appear as^y. 

 25. Take another 

 turn and throw a half 

 hitch. Then, with the 

 scissors, cut off, very 

 cleanly, the super- 

 fluous end of the feather close to the head of the 



Fig. 25. 



