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. Starting just a little space behind the 

 eye to leave room for the hackle catch end 

 of thread under ("thread" means your tying- 

 silk) and take four or five turns around the 

 shank, winding away from you and making 

 close turns toward the bend of the hook. Cut 

 off close short end of thread. 



Steps 1 and 2 



The tying-silk must be wound as tightly as it 

 will stand without parting, and a handy arrange- 

 ment for catching and holding taut the thread 

 at any time you wish to drop it is the following: 

 Between the legs of a common wooden clothespin 

 jam a piece of rubber from the front side of which 

 you cut out a V-shaped piece, and then further 

 make a cut into the angle of the notch to cor- 

 respond with the leg of a Y. Bore a hole in the 

 front of your workbench which will take the 

 clothespin snugly, and into which you insert it 

 head first. Or it may lie on top of a table, pro- 

 jecting a little beyond the edge, to which it is 

 clamped under the end of the vise. When you 

 want to relinquish the thread temporarily catch 

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