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To DYE FEATUERS VARIOUS SHADES OF RED, AMBER, AND BROWN. 

 Boil them in the alum mordant above, then in an infusion of fustic 

 (table-spoonful to a pint of water), to bring them to a bright yellow . 

 then boil them in a dye of madder, peach or Brazil-wood. To set the 

 color, put a few drops of dyers' spirit (to be procured at any silk-dyer's) 

 into the last-mentioned dye. 



To STAIN GUT. Put the gut into an infusion of onion-coatings 

 (above) ; when it is quite cold let it remain until it becomes as dark 

 as may be. Gut may be stained in an infusion of cold green tea. A 

 cold dye of logwood will turn it to a pale blue. 



After a little practice you will be enabled to do wonders with your 

 feathers ; perhaps, also, with your hands, which, if you operate exten- 

 sively on all the colors, will become quite a nondescript color. 



FLIES CONTINUED. 



We inserted the foregoing receipts in this place in preference to the 

 end of the trout-flies, inasmuch as, being copied from Ronald's work, 

 and having reference chiefly to his style of tying flies, which, by the 

 way, is the most correct, since he gives you a colored representation 

 of the fly, and then below it a colored one of his imitation. To this 

 list I have added thirteen more and three palmers, the raccoon being 

 one, and the three last of the palmers, before enumerated, and the 

 ten following ones : I need hardly observe that palmers are nothing 

 more than caterpillars. 



Body. Hackle. Tinsel. Wings. 



No. 1. Orange floss silk, Red twist. Silver, \ Wood cock out- 



( side wing. 



2. " " Black, " Gold, . Partridge. 



3. " " Red " None, Landrail. 



4. Black " Red " Silver, Starling. 



5. " Black " 



6. Yellow " " " None. " 



7. " Red " Silver, Partridge. 



8. Ginger" None, Landrail. 



9. Rat's fur, Red " " Starling. 



10. Mouse fur, None, Silver, Grouse buzzy. 



1 1. Pale iron-blue mo- ) . k d f d } ' 



l;r; r rixeS, aley i K ^ sea - swaii - 



12. Green gosling mohair, Red, " Partridge. 



