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swerable to the colour you are to imitate in the fly ; and 

 this way you may counterfeit those rough insects, which 

 some call wool-beds, because of their wool-like outside 

 and rings of divers colours, though I take them to be 

 palmer worms, which the fish much delight in. Let me 

 add this only, that some flies have forked tails, and some 

 have horns, both which you must imitate with a slender 

 hair fastened to the head or tail of your fly, when you 

 first set on your hook, and in all things, as length, co- 

 lour, as like the natural fly as possibly you can : the 

 head is made after all the rest of the body, of silk or 

 hair, as being of a more shining glossy colour than the 

 other materials, as usually the head of the fly is more 

 bright than the body, and is usually of a different colour 

 from the body. Sometimes I make the body of the fly 

 with a peacock's feather, but that is only one sort of 

 fly, whose colour nothing else that I could ever get 

 would imitate, being the short, sad, golden, green fly I 

 before mentioned, which I make thus : take one strain 

 of a peacock's feather, or if that be not sufficient, then 

 another, wrap it about the hook, till the body be ac- 

 cording to your mind ; if your fly be of divers colours, 

 and those lying long ways from head to tail, then I take 

 my dubbing, and lay them on the hook long ways, one 

 colour by another, as they are mixed in the natural fly, 

 from head to tail, then bind all on, and fasten them with 

 silk of the most predominant colour; and this I conceive 

 is a more artificial way than is practised by many ang- 

 lers, who use to make such a fly, all of one colour, and 

 bind it on with silk, so that it looks like a fly with round 



