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fand with the finger and thumb press up the 

 fibres of the ostrich towards the wings, to 

 make it stand even in its proper place ; put off 

 the silk, and lay on a little varnish at the point 

 of the head, and your fly is completed. 



As it is my intention to instruct the reader 

 in every point necessary for his benefit, accord- 

 ing to my own knowledge and experience, 

 throughout the pages of this book, it affords 

 me much pleasure to be enabled to do so, and 

 to offer something to the fly-fisher worth having, 

 there is scarcely a page he opens that he will 

 not find something valuable to himself, if he is 

 a real lover of the art. " There is a pleasure 

 in angling that no one knows but the angler 

 himself." 



I will now show how the India-rubber Green 

 Drake is made, with a cock-tail, like the beau- 

 tiful engraving in the plate, (see Green Drake). 

 The Grouse, and Golden Plover hackle may 

 also be made in a similar manner, to suit fine 

 evenings in the summer, without the tail. 



To compose the fly, take a piece of gold 

 tinsel, and cut a long strip of light india-rubber 

 very thin, hackle, wings, tail, and all laid down 

 ready, — tie the gut on the top of the hook, to 



