94 ART OF ANGLING. 



Materials for making Artificial Flies. 



"To frame the little animal, provide 

 All the gay hues that wait on female pride ; 

 Let nature guide thee. Sometimes golden wire 

 The shining bellies of the fly require; 

 The peacock's plumes thy tackle must not fail, 

 Nor the dear purchase of the sable' s tail. 

 Each gaudy bird some slender tribute brings, 

 And lends the growing insect proper wings; 

 Silks of all colours must their aid impart, 

 And ev'ry fur promote the fisher's art." 



Gay. 



Procure the fur of seals, moles, and water- 

 rats ; black, blue, purple, white, and violet 

 goat's-hair, commonly called mohair; camlets 

 of every colour ; furs from the neck and ears of 

 hares ; also, hackle-feathers from the heads and 

 neck's of cocks, of the following colours, red, 

 dun, yellowish, white, and black ; feathers to 

 form the wings of flies are got from the neck, 

 breast, and wings of the wild mallard, partridge, 

 and pheasant ; also, from the wings of the 

 blackbird, brown hen, starling, jay, landrail, 

 swallow, thrush, fieldfare, and water-coot; also, 

 peacock's and ostrich's herl. Provide also, 

 marking silk of all colours ; gold and silver flat- 

 ted wire or twist, a sharp knife, hooks of every 

 size, a needle, and a pair of sharp-pointed scis- 

 sors. 



Directions for making an Artificial Fly. 

 Take a length of silk, the colour of the body 

 of the fly you intend to make, and wax it well 

 with shoemaker's wax ; then, holding the hook 



