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inch of the shank left bare to receive the 

 wings ; wax the silk well that it may make the 

 head firm, and proceed thus. — First strip off 

 two fibres of the peacock's wing feather, and 

 place them with three or fom' fibres of brown 

 mallard, and the same quantity of spotted 

 turkey tail, add to it a piece of neck and tail 

 feather of the golden pheasant, with a little 

 guinea hen, teal, and red macaw feather, yellow, 

 orange, and blue. Keep these all even together, 

 and break them at the roots like the gaudy 

 wdng in the last plate, and divide them in 

 equal parts ; now having mixed both your 

 wings alike, take up one wing in your right 

 fore-finger and thumb nails and hold it 

 tightly, take up your fly with the left hand, and 

 with the right hand place the wing on at the 

 off side, laying it under the fore-finger of the 

 left hand, and with the right hand give two 

 turns of the tying silk over it, at the same 

 time holding on tight between the nails of the 

 left hand, and press it down with the thumb 

 nail of the right, which keeps the head firm ; 

 then in like manner take up the other wing 

 and place it on the near side, keep the wings 

 p the same length, and to extend two eighths of 



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