30 FLIES. 



imperfection, and properly tested as to its 

 strength, dubbing or hackle, and a piece of 

 fine silk well waxed with shoemaker's wax. 

 Hold the hook in the left hand, wrap the 

 silk round the bare hook two or three 

 times, and put the finest end of the gut on 

 the under side of the hook. If for a 

 hackle fly, begin at the bend and work up 

 to the head ; after turning three or four 

 times round the hook and gut, fasten in 

 the hackle, and continue the winding of 

 silk until it reaches the end of the hook, 

 then turn it back two or three times to 

 form the head ; the dubbing must now be 

 twisted round the silk, and wrapped upon 

 the hook for nearly half the proposed 

 length of the body; fasten it there by a 

 single loop, that both hands may be at 

 liberty to manage the hackle. When suffi- 

 cient of the feather is wound upon the 

 hook, the remainder should be held under 

 the thumb of the left hand, and the 



