88 THE JOLLY ANGLER. 



the plume, laying it, reversed, from the end of the shank 

 upwards ; then whip your silk twice or thrice about the 

 end root of the feather, gut, and hook ; which being 

 done, chip off the root -end of the feather close by the 

 arming*, and then whip the silk fast and firm about the 

 hook and gut till you come to the bend of it; and then, 

 if the gut goes beyond the bend of the hook, cut it off, 

 and make all fast ; take then the dubbing, which is to 

 make the body of your fly, as much as you think will do, 

 and, holding it lightly with your hook, between the finger 

 and thumb of your left hand, take the silk with your 

 right hand, and, twisting it between the finger and thumb 

 of that hand, the dubbing will 

 spin itself about the silk; thus: 

 which, when it has done, whip 

 it about the armed hook till you 

 come to the setting on of the 

 wing ; afterwards take the fea- 

 ther for the wings, divide it into two equal parts, and 

 turn them back towards the bend of the hook, the 

 one on the one side, and the other on the other side of 

 the shank, holding them fast in that posture, between the 

 fore-finger and thumb of your left hand ; which being 

 done, warp them so down as to stand, and slope towards 

 the bend of the hook ; and, having warped up to the end 

 of the shank, hold the fly fast between the finger and 

 thumb of your left hand, and then take the silk between 

 those of your right, and where the warping ends, and 

 pinch or nip it with your thumb-nail against your finger, 

 and strip away the remainder of your dubbing from the 

 silk, which wax again ; and then, with the silk newly 

 waxed and bare, whip it once or twice about, crossing 

 backwards and forwards from one wing to the other, till 

 you make the wings stand properly ; then fasten, and cut 

 it off ; after which, with the point of a needle, raise up 

 the dubbing gently from the warp, twitch off the loose 

 hairs, trim the wings both of one size (or your Fly will not 

 swim true), and the whole is completed. 



* The arming is that part described at the bottom of the next 

 page. 



