108 BKST's ART OF ANGLING. 



whipped on, and the parts of the silk hang from 

 the bend of it* 



Having proceeded so far, wax the longest end 

 of the silk again, and take three or four strands 

 of an ostrich's feather, and holding them and 

 the hook, as in the first position, the feathers to 

 the left hand, and the roots of them in the 

 bend of the hook with the silk that you waxed 

 hist, whip them three or four times round, make 

 a loop, and fasten them tight; then turning the 

 strands to the right hand, and twisting them and 

 the silk together, with the fore-finger and thumb 

 of your right hand, wind them round the shank of 

 the ri rst hook till you come to the place where you 

 listened, then make a loop, and fasten them 

 again ; if the strands should not be long enough 

 to wind as far as is necessary round the shank, 

 when the silk gets bare you must twist others on 

 it. Having performed this, take your scissars 

 and cut the body of the palmer into an oval form, 

 that is, small at the bend and the end of the 

 shank, but full in the centre* do not cut too much 

 of the clubbing off. Now both the ends of the 

 silk are separated, one at the bend, another at 

 the end of the shank, wax. them both again ; then 

 fake the hackle, hold the small end of it between 

 the fore-finger and thumb of your left hand, 

 and stroke the fibres of it with those of your 

 right, the contrary way from which they are 

 formed ; hold your hook as in the first position, 

 and place the point of the hackle in its bend, 

 with that side which grows nearest the cock up- 

 wards, and then whip it tight to the hook ; but in 

 fastening it tieas few fibres in as you can possibly 

 avoid : the hackle being fast, take it by the great 

 end, and keeping the side nearest the cock to the? 

 left hand, begin with your right hand to wind it 



