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and some without any. The tails are mostly a twitch of 

 scarlet-mohair, with a bit of tippet or jungle-cock ; the 

 hackles of a dirty-brown red hard upon cinnamon, one or 

 two with a turn of black at the shoulder ; the wings are 

 either plain brown speckled turkey, bustard or bunches of 

 peacock herl. 



The next batch run 6, 7, and 8. The bodies are of 

 warm orange wool; tails, as before; pretty closely tin- 

 selled ; with coch-y-bondu hackles, only black at the but, 

 not in the centre; wings, either of dark rich brown 

 turkey, or a bunch of herl. 



Berrington'a Favourite is dressed in this way, only 

 the hackle is a coch-y-bondu with a black centre, and a 

 rich brown turkey wing, with a slip of the light tip 

 turkey such as is used in 'the Toppy,' wing between. 

 Some flies are called grubs. They are dressed without 

 wings, merely as hackles, but they have these hackles 

 one at the head, one in the middle, and a third near the 

 tail ; sometimes these will be all dusty red, or a coch-y- 

 bondu at head, a red in the middle and a dark olive at 

 tail. They have no tinsel ; bodies, tawny-orange or olive. 

 Hooks Nos. 6, 7, and 8. 



Then there are flies called 



The Hornets. They have fat bodies dressed after the 

 fashion of ' the bumble' trout fly ; peacock herl and yellow 

 or orange crewel, alternately ; coch-y-bondu hackle at 

 shoulder ; and brown turkey wing. Hook, Nos. 7 and 8. 



Low water patterns have medium olive wool bodies ; 

 hackle of the same ; silver tinsel : tail, scarlet mohair, or 

 with jungle cock ; wings, a bunch of herl or a bit of dark- 

 ish bustard. Hooks, Nos. 6 and 7. All these flies have 

 peacock herl heads, and are for the lower division of the 

 river. Higher up Mr. Crawshay's patterns come in. He 

 has adopted the Tweed plan of using double hooks, and it 

 has answered well. 



