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your hackles or hair, wash them well, as I 

 said before, in soap and hot water. The five 

 principal colours to work upon are blue, red, 

 yellow, brown, and black. From the combina- 

 tion of two or more of these may be produced 

 every shade required, from the lightest to the 

 darkest, so that it only requires some practice, 

 to know the different ingredients to use, to 

 become a Dyer of Fishing Colours. 



TO DYE YELLOW. 



I will begin with yellow, the most useful 

 colour in general for the gentle craft. Put 

 your crucible on a slow fire nearly full of water, 

 or say half full, for the first trial. Take a 

 tea cup, and into it put a table-spoonful 

 of the best turmeric, poiu* over it some warm 

 water, and stir it well with a clean piece of fire 

 wood; when the water begins to simmer in 

 the pot, put in the ingredient out of the cup, 

 and stir it well with a piece of stick ; have a 

 second crucible, about half full of soft water, 

 and boil it, into this put two table-spoonfuls 

 of ground alum and one tea-spoonful of crystal 



