ON EYED-HOOKS. 



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in parallel, sloping, 

 regularly - spaced 

 open turns (fig. 25). 



Leaving the 

 pliers hanging on 

 the hackle, first take 

 two or three close 

 turns of the wire 

 tightly round the 

 hackle-point, so as 

 to secure it, and, 

 keeping a steady 

 strain on the wire, 

 work it up between 

 the fibres so as to 

 rib the body the re- 

 verse way over the hackle up to the head, where, 

 fasten in the wire with 

 two or three turns of 

 the tying-silk : break off 

 the remnant of the wire, 

 finish, and varnish as 

 before (fig. 26). 



In the case of an or- 

 dinary hackle or buzz-fly 

 with silk or qzdll body, 



take three or four turns of silk at the head ; fasten 

 in the root of the hackle ; carry tying-silk to tail 

 end of fly, fastening in whisk (if any) ; set up 

 whisk, and lay body material along the top of 



