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call peacock-harl,) fasten one end with the silk, then 

 twist it round the silk and lap both silk and harl nearly 

 to the shank end of the hook, fasten the harl and cut off 

 that part which is too long ; tiien take a fine red cock 

 hackle, strip off the down, and put the root end on the 

 head with the light side up and the tip towards your 

 right hand, fasten it well down with the silk, and with 

 two halches fasten the silk and cut it off ; then with 

 your tweezers take hold of the tip of the feather 

 and wind it round the hook and harl until it comes 

 to near the bend of the hook where you left the other 

 end of the silk, and let your tweeters hang down till 

 with two laps of the silk you fasten the end of the feather, 

 cut off the tip end, and with two halches fasten the silk, 

 cut of the end, and it is completed, and will kill most of 

 the summer months in any river in England. 



BRACKIN-CLOCK. 



We will now make a BRACKIN-CLOCK, a fly of the 

 beetle tribe. There are a many kinds, some with black, 

 others brown or red wings; most of them have a black 

 body and dun wings under the husk, which starts out at 

 the tail of the fly, some not being able to cover them when 

 they fall on the water ; therefore when you make 

 the black ones, put a few dun fibres from the wing of a 

 starling on the tail when you tie on the husk, so that it 

 will stand a little beyond the wings ; the red ones are 

 always covered when at rest. Now to begin, fix in your 

 vice a No. 1 hook, then wax about a foot of green silk, 

 proceed as in the palmer-worm until the fastening 

 on of the wings, only you must whip on a strand of black 



