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two turns, fasten the stem, and cut away 

 what remains of it ; take a peacock's haekle 

 and finish the head of the fly, take your 

 needle and put all in order ; this is a very 

 killing fly, but best in bright weather. 



A SIXTH, CALLED THE GOLDEN 

 FLY. 



For this fly, a hook No. 3, the shank near 

 two inches in length; the wings from the 

 golden pheasant, the common pheasant, the 

 parrot, the peacock's harl from the tail, the 

 turkey's mottled feather from the tail, and 

 two blue mottled feathers from the jay's 

 wings, one placed on each side of the wings,, 

 with the mottled side downwards ; it must be 

 made very soft with your finger and thumb, 

 not breaking the crust of the stem that may 

 lay more flat down to the other part of th$ 

 wings; it must be lapped on, before you finish 

 the head, by itself; all the other feathers 

 must be mixed equally alike, and a middling 

 i&rge wing, but not longer than to the end Q 



