Tllfc PALMER AM) MA\-FLY. 107 



HOW TO MAKE THE PALMER AND MAY-FLY* 



First lay all the materials by the side of you, 

 viz. half a yard of line round even silk worm gut: 

 half a yard of red silk well waxed with wax of 

 the same colour, a hook, the size No. 6 : a 

 needle : some strands of an ostrich's feather, and 

 a fine red hackle: then take the hook, arid hold 

 it hy the bend, between the fore-finger and t^umb 

 of your left hand, with the shank towards your 

 right hand, and with the point and beard of your 

 hook not under your fingers, but nearly parallel 

 with the tops of them : afterwards take the silk, 

 and hold it likewise about the middle of it, \vit! 

 your hook, one part laying along the inside of it 

 to your left hand, the other to the right ; then 

 take that part of the silk which lies towards your 

 right hand, between the fore finger and thumb 

 of that hand, and holding that part towards 

 your left, tight, along the inside of the hook, 

 whip that to the right, three or four times 

 round the shank of the hook towards the right 

 hand ; after which take the si/k worm gut, and lay 

 either of its ends along the inside of the shank - 

 of the hook, till it comes near the bend of it: 

 then hold the hook, s//A, and gut, tight between 

 the fore-finger and thumb of your left hand, and 

 afterwards give that part of the silk to your right 

 hand, three or four whips more over both hook 

 and gut till it comes near the end of the shank, 

 and make a loop and fasten it tight: then whip it 

 neatly again over both silk, gut, and hook, till 

 it comes near the bend of the hook : after which 

 make another loop, and fasten it again : then if 

 the gut should reach farther than the bend of 

 the hook, cut it off, and your hook will be 



