INSTRUCTION FLY NO. 1. 89 



Section X. Next, with its root end to right, tie in on near side the 

 point of the head-herl, with its flock y edge downwards. To do this, hold 

 the point of the herl by the left thumb, which raise slightly from its grip 

 of the hook to receive it and, allowing half an inch of herl for waste, 

 closely wind the silk tailwards up to the wings. CATCH the silk once 

 more. Ascertain, by gentle pull over and turn over, if necessary, whether 

 the herl will lie rightly, that is, flock loopwards ; attach tweezers and 

 wind four coils of herl tailwards, reaching close up to the wing. Let 

 tweezers hang. Transferring silk from CATCH into right fore-finger and 

 thumb, extend the three unengaged left fingers straight out from you and 

 pass the silk taut under the hook (as if unwinding) into CATCH of left 

 middle and third fingers so extended. Varnish the taut silk for about 

 half an inch, beginning from the fly, outwards ; loop the unvarnished part 

 immediately beyond the part varnished, and pass the loop, when made to 

 form a half-hitch, over the whole head, so that it may come to rest 

 between the wings and the herl head. Hold it there with STOP finger, 

 and pull taut with right fore-finger and thumb. This will form a single 

 varnished knot, and will be perfectly secure (as well as neat) when the 

 varnish is quite dry. 



Section XI. In extended CATCH-grip seize tweezers and waste of 

 silk, now both hanging down ; turn the left hand over towards you, and, 



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with the point of the scissors, cut the waste of herl and tying-silk'neatly 

 off, and then the waste point of herl. 



