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give two laps of the tying silk over it, and a 

 running knot. The body now formed, take a 

 very light brown grouse hackle (see the grouse 

 hackle prepared in the plate of Feathers, — the 

 partridge and the plover hackles are prepared 

 in the same way, and all feathers of this shape 

 for the throat, you may either draw them back 

 at the end, or cut them like the wren tail 

 feather), and tie it on at the shoulder, roll it 

 about three times over on its back, keeping the 

 fibres down towards the left under the fingers, 

 tie the stem with a running knot, and do not 

 give too many laps of the tying silk at the 

 head to make it bulky, for it occasions the 

 wings to turn round on the hook, as then there 

 is no foundation for them, but when they are 

 tied hard on the hook, they sit firm — ^you can 

 not wing it neatly otherwise; to prevent a 

 vacancy at the shoulder, lay on a little yellow- 

 green mohair to fill it up, and roll the hackle 

 over it, you may now guard the gut with the 

 silk before you tie on the wings, do not allow 

 the body of the fly to come too close up to the 

 head, or as I said before, you cannot tie on the 

 i wings properly. Now take the dyed mallard i 

 feather for the wings, strip two pieces off, and " 



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