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piece lying on the table, and lay it along the 

 tying silk sparingly, twist it round the silk, 

 and roll it up to the shoulder, or nearly so, and 

 give a running knot; take a small hackle and 

 cut it at the point (see hackle at the bottom of 

 this plate), or, instead of cutting it, draw it 

 back a little with the fingers, as you may see 

 the growse hackle prepared in the plate of 

 feathers, or hackle cut at point in the plate of 

 feathers ; tie the hackle on at the centre of the 

 body at the point where it is cut, and give a 

 running knot, and to fill up the space between 

 that and the shoulder, roll on a little more fur, 

 and give a knot with the silk ; wax your silk 

 occasionally, as it wears off; you now turn the 

 hook round in the fingers and hold it by the 

 bend; this turning of the hook is the most 

 curious and convenient part of it ; the hackle 

 appears standing on the fly, as in Plate II., or Y. 

 You take the hackle by the end in your right 

 hand, and roll it up to the shoulder in a slanting 

 direction, giving it an extra turn or two at the 

 head, as you see Plate VII., tie it down, and 

 cut off the stem of the hackle; take the fly 

 between your finger and thumb, keeping the 

 fibres of the hackle under them out of the way 



