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We will now return to Plate VI, and teach 

 bow it is to be winged — You cut off a strip 

 from tbe turkey tail featber, wbich must be 

 unbroken, as a whole wing; after measuring 

 tbe proper length of it for tbe book, you draw 

 each piece small with tbe nails where it is to 

 be tied on, as the strip is broader at the root, 

 so that, take it on the whole, it must be narrow 

 where this piece of featber is made small at 

 tbe roots, as seen in the plate of Feathers, to 

 keep it so whole, touch it with a little varnish, 

 and let it dry a little on tbe table. 



You take bold of tbe fly in your left hand, 

 close to tbe bead, draw the fibres of the 

 hackle out of the way by placing them under 

 your fingers ; take the wing in your right hand 

 and lay it on, catching it between the left 

 finger and thumb on the top of the hook 

 tightly, and give two rolls of tbe tying silk 

 over it ; take up the other wing, like tlie last, 

 and lay it on the near side, and lap the silk 

 over it in like manner (renew tlie silk with wax 

 before the wings are tied on) ; you now may tie 

 on a few fibres of golden pheasant neck, and 

 . tail feathers at each side of the wings just put 

 and a piece of macaw feather at each side ; 



