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length of the wing of the point of the plume, lying reversed 

 from the end of the shank upwards ; then whip your silk 

 twice or thrice about the root-end of the feather, hook and 

 towght ; which being done, clip off the root-end of the 

 feather close by the arming, and then whip the silk fast and 

 firm about the hook and towght, until you come to the bend 

 of the hook, but not further, as you do at London, and so 

 make a very unhandsome, and, in plain English, a very un- 

 natural and shapeless fly ; which being done, cut away the 

 end of your towght, and fasten it, and then take your dub- 

 bing which is to make the body of your fly, as much as you 

 think convenient, and holding it lightly with your hook be- 

 twixt the finger and thumb of your left hand, take your silk 

 with the right, and twisting it betwixt the finger and thumb 

 of that hand, the dubbing will spin itself about the silk, which 

 when it has done, whip it about the armed hook backward, 

 till you come to the setting on of the wings ; and then take 

 the feather for the wings, and divide it equally into two 

 parts, and turn them back towards the bend of the hook, 

 the one on the one side and the other on the other of the 

 shank, holding them fast in that posture betwixt the fore- 

 finger and thumb of your left hand ; which done, warp them 

 so down as to stand and slope towards the bend of the 

 hook ; and having warped up to the end of the shank, hold 

 the fly fast betwixt the finger and thumb of your left hand, 

 and then take the silk betwixt the finger and thumb of your 

 right hand, and where the warping ends, pinch or nip it 

 with your thumb-nail against your finger, and strip away 

 the remainder of your dubbing from the silk, and then with 

 the bare silk whip it once or twice about, make the wings to 

 stand in due order, fasten, and cut it off"; after which, with 



