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short, so that it will the better mix with the hare's 

 ear. This dubbing must also be tied in with the silk, 

 and the fly should be large at the shoulder. No 

 hackle in this specimen is required. The wings from 

 the large wing-feathers of the fieldfare, each placed 

 on separately. Fly No. 3, black hackle ; body of blue 

 wool or mohair, finished at termination with a couple 

 of turns of silver tinsel, black hackle from domestic 

 fowl for shoulder, with the wing composed of the 

 feather either from tail or wing of the water-hen. 

 The angler had better be provided with various sizes 

 of these, as rivers are not always in the same condi- 

 tion, and weather is variable. For me to say that 

 other flies will not kill better on some rivers, or at 

 least equally well, would be absurd, but those de- 

 scribed I have found most generally useful. A hand- 

 some and frequently very killing fly at times, partic- 

 ularly in blustering weather, is made of the following 

 material. Body of two of the longest and most rufus 

 strands of a feather from a brown turkey; these 

 strands to have the fingers pulled up them, so as to 

 cause the fine edges to stand out ; then wrapped firm- 

 ly on. Shoulder of brown cock's hackle, with brown 

 grouse feather for wing. In autumn, particularly if 

 the stream should be clearing after a flood, I have 



