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ted wire, or twist ; hooks in small chip boxes, 

 with the number of the size of each marked on 

 the outside: wax of all colours, and needles; a 

 sharp pen-knife, and a small sharp pair of scis- 

 sars, made quite angular, with large bows for the 

 fingers. 



N. B. When you make the palmer-fly,, suit the 

 colour of the silk to the hackle you dub with ; a 

 lun hackle requires yellow silk ; a black hackle, 

 sky-blue silk ; a brown, or red hackle, red silk ; 

 when you make flies that are not palmers, dub 

 with silk that resemble* the colour most predo- 

 minant in the fly ; and in making your flies, re- 

 member to mix bear's hair and hog's down, with 

 your other dubbing, because they repel the wa- 

 ter ; make your flies always in hot sun -shiny 

 weather, for your waxed silk will then draw 

 kindly ; and when you take the dubbing to imi- 

 tate a fly, always wet it y and then you will be 

 perfect in your imitation ; for although the dub- 

 bing when dry may suit, yet when it is wet it may 

 be quite another colour. Marten's fur is the best 

 yellow you can use. 



JlOW TO MAKE THE PALMER AND MAY-FLY* 



First lay all the materials by the side of yon, 

 viz. half a yard of fine round even silk worm-gut: 

 half a yard of red silk, well waxed with wax of 

 i ho same colour : a tiook, the size No. 6 : a nee- 

 dle : some strands of an ostrich's feather, and 

 a fine red hackle : then take the hook, and hold 

 it by the bend, between the fore-finger and 

 thumb of your left hand, with the shank to- 

 wards your right hand, and with the point an$ 

 beard of your hook not under your fingers, but 



