10(J BEST'S ART OF ANGLING. 



CARPETS jtND BLANKETS. 



There is very good dubbing to be got from 

 ketSy also from an old Tut key carpet ; untwist 

 the yarn, and pick out the wool, then separate 

 the colours, wrap them up in different papers, 

 and lay them by. 



SILKS, 8gC. 



In this drawer, which is the last, keep small, 

 though strong silk of all colours, wrapt on little 

 reels; also raw silk, gold and silver flatted wire, or 

 twist; hooks in small chip boxes, with the num- 

 ber of the size of each marked on the outside : 

 wax of all colours, and needles; a sharp pen- 

 knife, and a small sharp pair of scissars, made 

 quite angtilar, with large bows for the lingers. 



N. B. When you make the palmer-fly suit the 

 colour of the silk to the hackle you dub with ; a 

 dun hackle requires yellow silk ; a biack hackle, 

 sky-blue silk; a brown, or red hackle, red silk^ 

 when you make flies that are not palmers, dub 

 with silk that resembles the colour most predo* 

 ininent in the fly ; and in making your flies, re- 

 member to mix bear's hair and hog's down, with 

 your other dubbing, because they repel the wa- 

 ter ; make your flies always in hot sun-shiny 

 weather, for your waxed silk will then draw 

 kindly ; and when you take the dubbing to imi- 

 tate a fly, always wet it, and then you will be 

 perfect in you/imitation; for although the dub- 

 bing when dry may suit, yet when it is wet it 

 may be quite another colour. Marten's fur is 

 the best yellow you can use. 



