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Ostrich harlj as well as peacock harl, then take 

 the red tail feather of a partridge and strip of as much as 

 will make the husks, then with the root end towards 

 your right hand and the light side up, with the end of 

 the silk that lies at the bend of the hook whip down the 

 root end of the feather and clip them off, then take the 

 tip of the feather in the finger and thumb of your right 

 hand and bend it back till it comes to the end of the 

 shank where the other end of the silk lies, hold them firm 

 with the finger and thumb of your left hand, and whip 

 them down ; you have now one end whipt down at the bend 

 of the hook and the other end at the shank ; clip off the 

 ends, fasten the silk, clip off the end, and your fly is com- 

 pleted. This fly kills very well at times during most part 



of the season. 



SALMON FLIES. 



We will now make a SALMON FLY. In the first place 

 you must get a No. 10 hook, (though some are larger and 

 some smaller. Hooks for salmon-flies should be stronger than 

 those for trout,) hold it between the finger and thumb 

 of your left hand, or in the vice, take about twelve 

 or fourteen inches of red or brown silk of a proper thickness, 

 wax it from end to end, then hold the silk by the middle 

 with your right hand, letting about four er five inches of it 

 hang down between the finger and thumb of your left hand, 

 whip four or five times round the shank end of the hook 

 with that part you hold in your right hand, and take about 

 two inches of strong gut, double the ends together and lay 

 them on the shank of the hook so that the loop will pro- 

 ject a quarter of an inch from the shank end, then with 



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