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be told, it must be seen. We shall follow the 

 fashion. 



1. Take a piece of gut proved to be strong 

 enough by the above mentioned process, and bite 

 about a tenth of an inch at one extremity, so as 

 to make it flat, (in order that it may be less liable 

 to slip after being tied on to the hook). Then 

 holding a fine thread well waxed with cobbler's 

 wax, (A B C D, plate 3, fig. 1.) in one hand, 

 whip a part of it three or four times round the 

 end of the shank of the hook, beginning to whip 

 at B, and leaving a few inches of thread at A B 

 hanging down, with a pair of forceps, or little 

 weight at the end of it. 



2. Hold the bitten end E (fig. 2.) of the gut 

 E C F, in contact with the shank of the hook, 

 and wind tightly the portion of thread C D of 

 fig. 1 . first, once or twice round the gut close to 

 the end of the shank, fig. 2. and then over the 

 portion of gut C E, the three or four coils B C, 

 already made, and the shank of the hook, .C B E, 

 leaving out the piece of thread A B, still hanging 

 down. 



3. Bring two or three stylish whisks from a red 

 hackle into the position shewn in figure 3, and 

 bind them securely there, for the tail, by means 

 of the same end (c, d) of silk as was last used. 

 Bind in, at the same time, the extremity of a 

 piece of fine gold twist (e, f), and also an end of 



