434 AMERICAN ANGLER'? BOOK 



observations carefully, and kept a proper reckoning, by 

 referring to our little chart, you will find that your voyage 

 of exploration is nearly ended. By the foregoing you have 

 found out what materials the ship is built of, and how to put 

 them together, and you ought by this time certainly to 

 " know the ropes ;" the mere tying on of the wings is nothing 

 more than bending the sails. I have made the drawing 

 below to show how easily it is done. 



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Figure 1 is a feather with a section large enough for the 

 wings of a fly for a No. 4 hook clipped from it. Figure 2 is 

 the section removed. 3 is the section after once folding it. 

 It is then folded again, compressed between the thumb and 

 forefinger of the right hand, and laid on the back of the hook 

 with the tips of the fibres pointing towards the bend. 



The manipulation which precedes the tying on of the 

 wings, is the same as already described in making a Hackle, 

 with these few exceptions : — First, in forming the body, it 

 should be elongated somewhat towards the head. Secondly, 

 the hackle should be shorter, or the fibres stripped from one 

 side of the stem. For the legs of a winged fly, which the 

 fibres of the hackle are intended to represent, are not as 



