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done, warp them so down as to stand, and slope 

 towards the bend of the hook ; and having warp- 

 ed up to the end of the shank, hold the fly fast 

 between the finger and thumb of your left hand, 

 and then take the silk between those of your right, 

 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, 

 which wax again, and then with the silk which is 

 newly waxed and bare, whip it once or twice about, 

 make the wings stand properly, then fasten nnd 

 cut it off: after which, with the point of a needle, 

 raise up the dubbing gently from the warp, twitrh 

 off the superfluous hairs of your dubbing, leave 

 the wings of an equal length, (or your fly will ne* 

 ver swim true) and the whole is completed. 



In this manner you are to make the May-fly, 

 or green drake, and all other flies that are not 

 palmers ; the materials to make the green drake 

 are the following : your hook must be No. ,5, and 

 you must have the white-grey feather of a mal- 

 lard for the wings, dyed yellow ; the dubbing ca- 

 meFs hair, bright bear's hair, yellow camlet, and 

 the soft down that is combed from the bristles of 

 a hog, well mixed together, the body must be 

 long, and ribbed about with green silk, or rather 

 yellow, waxed with green wax, and three long 

 hairs for his tail, from those off a sable's. 



Or,, the May -fly may be dubbed after this me- 

 thod. The body of seal's fur, or yellow mohair, 

 a little fox-cub down, and hog's down, or Hght 

 brown from a turkey carpet, mixed together, warp 

 with green and yellow, pale yellow, or red 

 cock's hackle under the wings, which are to be 

 the same as in the other method of dubbing it. 



As I shall not mention the green-drake when I 



