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body, which you may see extending longer than 

 the tail ; you now take a piece of floss silk, fine, 

 and form the body of it from the tail to the 

 shoulder, as you see the taper body of Plate V., 

 and during the interval tie in the hackle on the 

 centre of the body, at the point where the silk 

 is hanging to receive the wings ; take tlie end 

 of the hackle in your right (first roll the tinsel 

 as the body of Plate VI.) finger and thumb, 

 and roll it slantingly over the body in rotation 

 with the tinsel, as you see in this latter plate, 

 and tie it down at the end of the shank, leave 

 the silk hanging as in this i)late, touch it at 

 this place with varnish ; you may wing it with 

 turkey or " glede" (kite's) tail feather, mallard, 

 &c., like the plate of the plain fly, opposite 

 No. 7, or like the wing of the gaudy Irish 

 salmon fly immediately mider that number at 

 the bottom of the plate, (I mention these two 

 flies in this manner to distinguish them from 

 the plate on Salmon Hooks). These two are 

 models of a plain, and gaudy Irish fly; the 

 delicacy of the body of the gaudy one, as the 

 silk and tinsel is so finely wrought between 

 each joint of harl and hackles, is beyond com- 

 pare ; and the wing is finely mixed, although 



