ON EYED-HOOKS. 



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Roll the horsehair on, taking care not to cover 

 the red silk at the tail-end ; fasten it off with two 

 or three turns of silk, and finish with the whip 

 finish (fig. 64). 



Fig. 64. 



For a Green Drake Body select the stoutest 

 bristle and horsehair. On the doubled end of the 

 bristle fix the tying-silk, which should be pale 

 yellow, well waxed. Apply the whisk, four or 

 five fibres of brown mallard wing for tail, the 

 soaked horsehair and a piece of doubled maize or 

 wheaten straw round the bristle, and fasten them 

 securely with four or five turns of silk (fig. 65). 



Fig. 65. 

 Work four or five turns of horsehair close to 



