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middle, take the hackle in the right, and roll it 

 from you closely round the shoulder, (see hackle 

 tied in at shoulder), leaving at the same time 

 enough of the hook bare at the end of the 

 shank to tie on the wings, and to roll on the 

 jay feather (see jay hackle ready), the hackle 

 supposed to be rolled round the shoulder, cut 

 off the tinsel and pig hair which you see on 

 the piece of silk, leaving another piece attached 

 in the same place to tie on the wings (see the 

 piece of tinsel and pig hair left at the head 

 ready to be cut off, and the silk hanging to tie 

 on the wings — second fly). 



The first fly, which we made above, is now 

 no other in appearance than the third fly at the 

 bottom of the plate, which shows hook, body, 

 and tinsel. We now come to the most critical 

 part of tying on the gaudy wings firmly, (see 

 mixed gaudy wing ready to tie on). You take 

 a neck-feather of the golden pheasant with a 

 piece of silver pheasant tail, a piece of peacock 

 wing, a teal feather, and a piece of wood-duck, 

 &c., lay them all evenly together, and break the 

 fibres between your nails, when you tie them 

 on the hook to make the whole small, as you 

 may see done at the root of the wing in tlie 



