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close together up the body I mean half as close as in any of 

 those flies I send. He said he got it from Lord Bolingbroke 

 at Christ church. He changed the body to orange ; both were 

 silk bodies. 



The late Mr. William Larket, of Derby, put cock of the 

 rock in the wing. I think I put the first fur body to the fly- 

 it was orange pig's wool. Mr. Larket and then Mr. Hobson 

 altered the fur to a mixture of red and yellow. Mr. Hobson 

 added to this the purple and fiery brown under the wing, 

 which Pat McKay borrowed and adopted, and nothing has 

 beaten this pattern. Yours 



S. SHEIL. 



The flies sent are all very similar to the patterns already 

 described, save that some of them have in the wing strips of 

 summer or wood duck, as it is more commonly termed, instead 

 of pintail. Some have merely the toppings and two cock of 

 the rock feathers in the wing. Most of them have longish 

 kingfisher feathers at the cheek. Some have and some have 

 not the bit of tippet for an under wing. Some, instead of jay, 

 have a medium blue hackle at shoulder, and some a claret 

 hackle. In these latter cases, the hackle is dressed outside or 

 over the wing, the ribs put on over that ; these are macaw 

 where the blue feather changes to red at the points. The 

 tags vary a little, some being puce, some orange, and some 

 yellow silk. The bodies vary slightly from yellow pig to yellow 

 with little or more orange. One of them has a brown body, 

 but I do not much like it. The hackles run from golden to 

 golden-olive and orange. It will thus be seen that a Parson 

 may be as varied as his creeds are: he may be a gorgeous 

 Russo-Greek ritualist or a plain parson Adams. 



No. 2. Tag, silver twist and medium blue floss ; tail, a 

 topping, and some tippet ; butt, black ostrich ; body, medium 

 claret floss, three turns, the rest medium orange floss ; silver 

 tinsel ; orange hackle, blue jay (sparish) at shoulder ; wing, 

 mixed gold pheasant tail, gallina, and tippet, one topping, 

 red macaw-ribs ; black head. 



No. 3. Tag, silver twist, medium blue floss ; tail, a top- 

 ping ; butt, black ostrich ; body, three turns of light orange 

 floss, the rest of light purple (lake*) ; silver twist ; hackle, 



* This is a difficult colour to desrribe, as it is neither claret, nor red, nor 

 purple, nor puce, nor mulberry, nor mauve : it is more the old-fashioned 

 colour called " lake." F. F. 



