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perhaps, will fill a basket on any mountain beck or trout 

 burn in heather districts. They may be used a size or two 

 larger if necessary. 



Soldier Palmer. A capital fly in warm weather, par- 

 ticularly when the water is a little coloured. Hook, No. 

 9, 10, or 11 ; body, bright red crewel, ribbed with gold 

 thread ; legs and wings, a bright red cock's hackle, struck 

 from tail to head. I usually havq two sizes of this fly in 

 my book ; it is always well worth a trial if the angler is 

 at a loss towards evening, and if there be a scarcity of 

 fly. 



I cannot pass over this branch of my subject without 

 noticing the flies mentioned by Mr. Stewart. He princi- 

 pally employed six, three of which are termed spiders, and 

 three winged flies. Their sizes are from No. 12 to 15 of 

 the Kendal or round bend hooks (see Plate XIV) ; and they 

 are dressed sparely, with very little body and not too much 

 hackle. The spiders are merely hackle or buzz flies, and 

 are of three kinds. 



1. The Black S;JK/<T. This is made with the small feather of the 

 cock starling, dressed with brown silk. 



2. The Red Spider is made with the small feather taken from tlie 

 outside of the landrail's wing, dressed with yellow silk. 



3. The Dun Spider is made from the small soft dun or ash-coloured 

 feather taken from the outside of the dotterel's wing, failing tha t 

 from the inside wing of the starling. The lashing of the hook forms 

 the body. 



The winged flies are as follows : 



1. A woodcock wing, with a single turn of red hackle or landrail, 

 dressed with yellow silk freely exposed in the body. For coloured 

 water it may be dressed with scarlet thread. 



2. Hare lug body, with a corn bunting or chaffinch wing ; a wood- 

 cock wing may be put to the same body, but should be made from the 

 small light-coloured feather from the inside of the wing. 



3. Woodcock wing with a single turn of a soft black hen hackle, 

 or a small feather taken from the shoulders of the starling, dressed 

 with dark-coloured silk. . '. 



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