Concerning Flies 231 



I think it will be interesting to see, if we 

 cannot discover why it is that these two 

 flies take such a very prominent position 

 on my lists of "winged'' and " hackled" 

 flies. 



Just let us examine these two flies in 

 detail, with the view of comparing their 

 respective dressings, their " buskings," as 

 it used to be called in Scotland, and still 

 is by old-fashioned people. 



I begin with " GreenwelTs Glory." The 

 wings are made from the quill feather 

 of a blackbird, tied in a bunch and 

 split that is, they are divided by the 

 thread used in tying the fly itself. A soft 

 hen's hackle of the kind known to fly 

 dressers everywhere as a " Cock-y-bonddhu," 

 forms the " legs " of the fly. The " body " 

 is quite simple, and is formed of the yellow 

 tying silk with which Canon Greenwell 

 always got the late old Jamie Wright, of 

 Sprouston, to dress the fly. The yellow 

 tying silk is waxed with cobbler's wax, 

 which imparts to it a greenish-yellow look. 

 Finally, the body is ribbed over with the 

 thin wire which can easily be unrolled 

 from a piece of ordinary yellow gimp, and, 

 failing that, with very thin gold wire. That 

 is the correct dressing of " Greenwell's 



