124 THE DRIFFIELD ANGLER. 



wild mallard's feather is hereafter directed, 

 that from a starling's wing will do much bet- 

 ter, as being of a finer grain and less spongy. 

 Be provided with marking silk of all colours, 

 fine and very strong ; flaw silk, gold and 

 silver flatted wire and twisted, a sharp knife, 

 hooks of all sizes, silk-worm gut, India-weed, 

 and the best white and grey horse hair 

 for links to your flies, shoe-maker's wax, a 

 large needle to raise your dubbing when flat- 

 ted with working, and a small sharp pair of 

 scissors ; and, lastly, if any materials requir- 

 ed in the subsequent list of flies, may have 

 been omitted in the foregoing catalogue, be 

 careful to add them to your former stock, so 

 often as you shall find any such omissions. 



Remember with all your dubbing to mix 

 bear's hair and hog's wool, whieh are stiff, 

 and not apt to imbibe the water, as the fine 

 furs and most other kinds of dubbing do j 

 also that the martern's fur should be the best 

 yellow : when the angler is furnished with 

 these materials, he may make any sort of 



