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two more turns tailwards, the foundation for the head-hackles will have 

 been thus formed. Make off. 



Now proceed with the ribs, and do not fail to give this tinsel a final 

 pull before completely fixing it. 



Next prepare and put on the two hackles, by the method as laid 

 down in No 1, Sections 4, 5, 10, and 11. Mark here that, in this instance, 

 these two hackles are intended for the throat, and that, in consequence, a 

 trifle more room must be allowed as bedding for their coils, than in those 

 cases where one of them is used for a body-hackle. When these are fixed 

 on by the directions previously explained, put the fly down and prepare 

 the wings. 



At this stage I would remark that the wings selected for this type of 

 fly I call " Mixed Wings." As the pioneer of this system, perhaps I may 



say without egotism that, amidst the many changes which have occurred 

 of late years, not only in the formation, but in the method of makins 

 certain flies, " mixed wings," with the exception of " Grubs," have met 

 with the greatest share of approval and success. I personally worked out 

 this original style of winging, and made it generally known among my 

 immediate friends on finding how well it answered in actual use. Many 

 years afterwards, in 1883 or 1884, I described the method of forming these 

 wings in the Fishing Gazette, and it is gratifying to note that mixed 

 wings are advocated by the authors of recent treatises on the subject. 

 But the way of formation was considerably improved by me in 1888, and 



