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head it with ostrich, or roll a little pig hair 

 round the silk sparingly, lap it over twice, and 

 finish by giving two running knots over it close 

 to the root of the wings (see the wing of 

 the middling plain Salmon Fly, Plate II, im- 

 mediately above the Sea-Trout Fly and May 

 Fly. 



The reader will perceive in this plate on 

 SALMON HOOKS, that I have just described a 

 garden, as it were fully cultivated, there is 

 hardly a space left waste, like the broad fields 

 of industrious England, whose sons ''never, 

 never shall be slaves." All the other plates are 

 likewise full of useful matter, which will prove 

 my hard labour, and at the same time show 

 that I have hid nothing from the Fly-Fisher in 

 all the processes. 



If the fly (Plate V., on salmon hooks) is 

 winged with feathers, like the Irish gaudy wing, 

 prepared in the plate of Feathers, it will be 

 found to approach near the gaudy fly at the 

 bottom of the plate, with "picker" at top. 



I will now describe the process of making 

 the Gaudy Salmon Fly, the plate of which is 

 invaluable to the Salmon fisher: — 



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