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to, even although one may sometimes pay rather 

 dearly for the whistle. More fish than cash is 

 taken by their nets after all ; and every body 

 knows the peculiar comfort of being well pro- 

 vided with tackle (and Prog by the by) when 

 distant from the sources of provision. We also 

 know the pride and pleasure of supplying a 

 "Venator" with a seasonable well-made fly or 

 a length of gut, &c. 



RECIPES FOR DYEING AND STAINING 

 FEATHERS, ETC. 



1. TO DYE WHITE FEATHERS A DUN COLOUR. 



Make a mordant by dissolving about a quarter 

 of an ounce of alum in a pint of water, and slightly 

 boil the feathers in it, taking care that they shall 

 be thoroughly soaked or saturated with the solu- 

 tion, then boil them in other water with fustick, 

 shumach, and a small quantity of copperas, put 

 into it until they have assumed the required tint. 

 The fustick and copperas will make a yellow dun 

 tint ; the shumack and copperas a blue dun tint. 

 The greater the quantity of copperas the deeper 

 will be the dye. 



2. TO TURN RED HACKLES BROWN. 



Put a piece of copperas the size of half a wal- 

 nut into a pint of water; boil it, and whilst boil- 



