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piece of yellow or brown silk (which, while you wound on the body, 

 should have been left hanging down by the bend of the hook) fasten 

 on each side the hook a narrow strip of bright straw, of about half 

 a straw's breadth. Lay it along each side of the body. Holding it in 

 that position, wind on over all the thick yellow or brown silk with which 

 you fastened the straw to the hook, but not too thick ; six or seven 

 times, at equal distances, will be sufficient. Attach the peacock's strand 

 for a head, or omit it, and finish. The hook for this should be made with 

 an eye. The wire should be fine, and, what is of great importance, the 

 point should stand well off from the shank." 



For another grub, Mr. Wheatley says : Prepare the wire, and in all 

 respects proceed as in the fabrication of Fig. 76 ; the material for the 

 body and the head being straight making the only difference ; save, 

 indeed, that it should be shorter than Fig. 76. The body should be 

 formed of white silk chenille. 



Another capital lure is intended to represent the green drake as it 

 issues from its grub state. It is made either on a double-brazed hook, 

 similar to those on which the larger palmers are commonly made, or 

 with a loose triple hook, in the manner of Fig. 76. The hook or wire, 

 as the case may be, is headed. The body is of pale, dirty yellow silk 

 chenille, as fine as can be procured, ribbed with brown silk or a fibre 

 from the common cock pheasant's tail. The wing is the usual mallard's 

 feather stained a greenish yellow, and so put on as to lie close to the 

 body, just the contrary to what it is after it has once risen to the 

 top of the water. Wind on a speckled ginger feather for legs, and it is 

 finished. 



