THE KENDLE 345 



I believe it to be an excellent fly, though I have 

 never tried it. I find a pattern of it stuck into 

 the leaves of my notebook, from which I give the 

 dressing : 



Tag : Silver twist. 



Tail : Two small toppings and a chatterer at the 

 base. 



Body : White floss-silk, covered over with a thin 

 strip of gold-beater's skin, the joints of the coils 

 being hidden by means of a ribbing of gold twist. 



Throat : Yellow hackle or yellow macaw, with a 

 blue hackle, or guinea-fowl dyed blue, over it. 



Wings : Swan, dyed blue and yellow, with bus- 

 tard, golden-pheasant tail and teal above. 



Horns : Blue macaw. 



Head : Black ostrich. 



27. THE LION. 



An old standard pattern, and said to be as 

 good of its kind as it can be. Mr. Kelson gives 

 the following recipe : 

 Tag : Silver twist and light yellow silk. 

 Tail : A topping. 

 Butt : Black ostrich. 

 Body : Flat silver tinsel, ribbed with oval ditto, a 



fifth part at the shoulder being left for dark 



scarlet seal's fur. 

 Hackle : A natural black down three parts of the 



body. 



