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now take two or three turns more over the 

 head to make it tighter and even, leaving a 

 little bit of the point to stand out ; you then 

 take a strip of macaw, and tie it on each side, 

 clip off the ends, take an ostrich harl and tie it 

 on about the centre of the head, and roll it 

 over from you two or three times, the downy 

 part of the stem next the loop to keep it all 

 the one way, and when up to the root of the 

 wings, take the silk which hangs here lap it 

 twice over, and give a running knot ; clip off 

 the silk and end of the harl, lay on a little 

 varnish very lightly at the point, and where the 

 silk has been just tied down, keep the varnish 

 off the ostrich harl; you may take a little pig 

 hair, and twist it round the silk, roll it over 

 the head very sparingly, and finish at the root 

 of the wings in the same manner, laying on a 

 little varnish. 



I will here repeat the tying on of the gaudy 

 wing, with two or three fibres of various sorts 

 of feathers, &c., which may be a little more 

 easy .to accomplish than the foregoing to the 

 young beginner. 



When you have the tail, tinsel, and hackle 

 put together on tlie hook, and the eighth of an 



