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up the shank upon the dubbing, stopping every 

 second turn, and holding what you have wound 

 tight with your left fingers, whilst with the needle 

 you pick out the fibres you will unavoidably take 

 in ; proceed in this manner till you come to the 

 place where you first fastened, and where an end 

 of the silk is : then clip off those fibres of the 

 hackle which you held between your finger and 

 thumb, close to the stem, and hold the stem close 

 to the hook, afterwards take the silk in your right 

 hand, and whip the stem very fast to the hook : 

 then make up a loop, and fasten it tight : take 

 your pen-knife and if that part of the stem next 

 the shank of the hook is as long as the pait of the 

 hook which is bare, pare it fine, wax your silk, 

 and bind it neatly on the remaining bare part of 

 the hook : then fasten the silk tight, and spread 

 some shoemaker's wax very lightly on your Jast 

 binding : alter that clip off the ends of the re- 

 maining silk, both at the shank and the bend of 

 hook, and all fibres that start or stand ill-condi- 

 tioned, and the whole is completed. 



This is called \hzpalmerfy Q? plain hackle, and 

 may, instead of the ostrich's feather above-men- 

 tioned, be dubbed with black spaniel's fur, and is 

 a very excellent killer. There are three more 

 palmers, which are all to be made in the same 

 manner as I have laid down, only with different 

 articles, which are as follows : 



GREAT PALMER? OR HACKLE. 



Dubbed the same as the plain back e with the 

 strands of an ostrich's feather, or a black spaniel's 

 fur, and warped with red peacock's hackle, un- 

 trimmed, that is, leaving the whole length of the 

 hackle staring out (for sometimes the fibres of the 

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