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right hand free to take up the hackle, which has 

 been prepared as directed ; seize, then, the hackle 

 by its feathered and pointed extremity, and with 

 its root, or that portion by which it grows in the 

 skin, lying towards the left, and its finer end to- 

 wards the head of the hook, and its midrib or stem 

 placed along the back of the hook, as you are 

 still holding it ; maintain it in this position with 

 the fore-finger and thumb of the left hand still 

 holding the hook, and having adjusted its length, 

 so that the tip of the feather protrudes a lifctle 

 below the head of the hook, you again take up 

 your silk from the left little finger, and continue 

 your winding of the fur for the body, now in- 

 cluding, together with the hook and gut, the end 

 of the hackle as well. And now having arrived 

 at that point, the lower four-fifths of the shank, 

 where you first began to splice on the gut, pull 

 off all the far adhering to the silk, and wax it 

 again thoroughly, and quite close up to the hook, 

 and then wind it twice around the projecting 

 small end of the hackle you have spliced on. 

 Now pass the silk, as before, between the hook 

 and the gut, that it may not slip, and just hang 

 the long end of the silk over the gut, to keep it 

 out of the way whilst you cut off the protruding 

 little end of the hackle close to the silk ; trim up 

 the body by pulling out any fur that may be 

 bushy, and arrange the hackle for winding it on \ 

 see that all the fibres stand off at a right angle 

 to the stem, and do not intrude upon one another, 

 but at equal distance project in their proper 



