ON FLY-MAKING. 11 



the hook, take one strand of a peacock's tail feather 

 and whip your silk once or twice round it ; lap the 

 strand three times round the tail, secure it with your 

 silk, and clip off the end, then wind your silk round till 

 you come to the fastening on of the wings, and with 

 the finger and thumb of your left hand, take the wings 

 (which have till now been lying with the points towards 

 your right hand) and turn them towards the bend of 

 the hook and hold them down ; after which, with the silk 

 give two or three laps round the head, so as to make the 

 wings lie down in their proper place, give one lap 

 under the wing, then take a small red hackle, strip the down 

 from the root end, place it under the wings with the 

 root towards the bend of the hook, and that side up 

 which grew downwards on the bird, then give three 

 laps over the root end with your silk and cut it 

 off, then with your tweezers take hold of the tip of the 

 feather and whip it two or three times round under the 

 wings, then with your silk fasten it by two or three laps, 

 cut the tip end of your feather off, fasten your silk with 

 two halches, and the fly is completed, which I call the 

 red ant. The hook, a No. 1. 



Now for the PALMER WORM. Take your hook No. 

 2 ; (though in some cases you might use a larger one} fix 

 it in your vice as before, then take half a yard of red 

 silk, wax it gently all over, then take it by the middle and 

 lap one end three or four times round the shank of the 

 hook towards your right hand ; put your gut on as 

 before, then whip your silk to near the bend of the hook, 

 and take the strand of a peacock's tail feather, (which I 



