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four ill number, should not much exceed the 

 length of the body, and are to be made to lie 

 Bat ; the mottled feather from a hen phea- 

 sant or pea hen is best adapted to this pur- 

 pose. The body is composed of any dark 

 brown fur ; such may be procured from bear's 

 skin, or the dark part of the hare's ear, 8cc. 

 and is to be mixed with yellow camlet or 

 mohair, so that it may appear most yellow 

 near the tail and belly of the fly ; with a griz- 

 zled hackle of good length wrapped under 

 the wings. Some persons, in imitating this fly, 

 add two hairs from the beard of a black cat, 

 or from the tail of the fulmart, or polecat, 

 as representations of the horns; but, as 

 before observed, attention to such minutiae is 

 unnecessary. 



Another very general mode of dressing 

 this fly is, by means of a long fibred griz- 

 zled hackle from a cock's back, without 

 wings. It is also a deadly bait used in the 



