10 ON FLY-MAKING. 



round the hook, keeping the laps close together till all 

 the fibres are wound on the hook, then with two or three 

 laps of the silk fasten the root end of the feather and 

 cut it off ; again lap the silk till you come near the 

 bend of the hook, keeping the fibres of the feather from 

 under the silk by drawing them back with your mouth ; 

 take a small bit of fur from the back of a hare's 

 neck and twist it rouud the silk very sparingly, so that 

 the silk will show through it ; lap till you come to 

 the wings, and with two halches fasten ; cut off the 

 the silk, and the fly is completed, and one that will 

 kill nearly throughout the season from the middle of 

 May to the end of October. This fly I call the par- 

 tridge-rump and a hackle-fly. 



We will now try to make a WINGED one. In the 

 first place take the quill feather, say from the starling's 

 wing, fix and,] use* your silk and gut as in the 

 other [fly, (only the silk must be a dark instead of a 

 light orange) then take your feather after stripping the 

 down from it, and separate from the other part as much 

 as will make the wings, then with your finger and 

 thumb divide that part you intend for the wings back- 

 ward, so that each wing will be equal and lie back to 

 back, strip it from the stem, hold it firm, and place 

 the root end of the feather towards the bend and on the 

 back of the hook, then with the finger and thumb of your 

 left hand hold the root end of the feather secure till with 

 the finger and thumb of your right hand you whip the 

 silk two or three times round towards your left hand, 

 then cut off the root and whip down to near the bend of 



