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A number of these bodies may be made up and 

 stored for use as wanted. 



(This whole procedure as that of the paper 

 retractor, the pike-scale and the shad-scale wings, 

 and the clothespin thread-holder serves ad- 

 mirably as a specimen illustration of the indi- 

 vidual "tricks-of-the-trade" that expert workers 

 develop.) 



Mr. Keene likewise made use of the needle 

 in fabricating flexible detached bodies, laying a 

 double strip of thin sheet rubber (dentists' 

 rubber dam) lengthwise about it looped around 

 the point then adding the tail whisks, and a 

 strip of wing-feather also directed away from 

 the point, then doubling back the feather, fold- 

 ing it smoothly over the rubber, and winding over 

 it the tying-silk of the color desired for ribbing. 



Another way to make an elongated body is 

 over a piece of silkworm-gut. It may or may 

 not be completely detached during construc- 

 tion. You may also use boars' bristles, to be 

 had of any dealer in shoemakers' supplies; and 

 you may use this or the gut either single or 

 double. Take a piece of gut, about three- 

 quarters or seven-eighths of an inch long, with 

 a knot tightly tied close to one end, which 

 catches the tail. Place it on back of hook with 

 the knot pointing in the direction of the bend. 

 Wind half-way along shank and over the gut, 

 with thread, to secure it. Carry thread back 



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