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tied in on the back, which is a perfect model, — 

 these hooks are tied together on the same piece 

 of gut first, and then make the fly over them. 

 It is difficult to perform this job until you know 

 how to make a palmer on a single hook. 



The foregoing is my favorite way of making 

 a palmer, but you must be proficient before you 

 can manage it well. I will here show how it 

 can be made in a very easy manner, when you 

 are able to handle the materials, and tie on 

 nicely. When you have the hook and gut 

 neatly tied on, take two hackles, and tie them 

 in at the end of the shank by the roots on their 

 back, tie in the peacock harl and tinsel to rib 

 it at the same place; holding your hook of 

 course by the bend in the left hand, take hold 

 of the two hackles in your pliers by the points, 

 and when the tinsel and body is rolled on, turn 

 the hackles over the body close with the tinsel 

 on their backs slopingly, till you reach the tail ; 

 here let go the pliers, and they will hang with 

 the ends of the hackles still in them, till you 

 take two turns of the silk over them, clip off 

 the ends of the hackles, and tie it neatly with 

 two running knots, lay on a little varnish ; the 

 fly will look rather rough in this method when 



