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as none can well teach him. And if he hit to make his fly 

 right, and have the luck to hit, also, where there is store of 

 Trouts, a dark day, and a right wind, he will catch such 

 store of them, as will encourage him to grow more and 

 more in love with the art of fly-making. 



Ven, But, my loving master, if any wind will not serve, 

 then I wish I were in Lapland, to buy a good wind of one 

 of the honest witches, that sell so many winds there, and 

 so cheap. 



Pise. Marry, scholar, but I would not be there, nor 

 indeed from under this tree : for look how it begins to rain, 

 and by the clouds, if I mistake not, we shall presently 

 have a smoking shower; and therefore sit close; this 

 sycamore-tree will shelter us : and I will tell you, as they 



The next leaf should be double, stitched with a margin as the others : and 

 through the first fold cut a lozenge, as big as the size will allow of: into this 

 you may tuck three or four wings of small birds, as the starling, the land-rail, 

 the throstle, &c. At the back of this leaf, sew two little parchment straps, of 

 half an inch wide, very strong ; through which put a small, but very neat and 

 sharp pair of scissars. 



You may, on another single leaf, make four or five cross-bars of long stitches ; 

 through which, as well on the back as the fore-side, you may put large feathers, 

 namely, those of a cock-pheasant's tail, a ruddy-brown hen, &c. 



The next three leaves should be double ; stitch them through the middle, 

 from bide to side ; and with the compasses describe a circle of about an inch 

 ; ad a half diameter : cut out the parchment within the circle. Under some of 

 Lie margins, when the leaves are stitched together, you may tuck peacock's and 

 ostrich herle ; and in others lay neatly the golden feathers of a pheasant's breast, 

 and the grey and dyed yellow mail of a mallard. 



Three double leaves moie, with only two large pockets in each, may be allot- 

 ted for silk of various colours, gold and silver twist, and other odd things. The 

 other leaves you may fill with land-rail's and other small feathers, plovers' tops, 

 and red and black hackles. 



The first and last leaves of your book may be double, stitched iu the middle 

 from side to side, but open at the edges; which will leave you four pockets like 

 those of a common pocket-book ; into which you may put hooks, and a small 

 piece of wax, wrapped in a bit of glove-leatber. 



To the page that contains the mixed dubbings, there should be an Index, 

 referring to every division contained in it, and expressing what fly each mix- 

 ture is for. 



When your book is thus prepared, send it to the binder with directions to 

 bind it as strong as possible ; let him leave a flap to one of the boards, and fasten 

 to it a yard of ribbon to tie it. 



The usefulness and manifold conveniences of a book are apparent; and who- 

 ever will be at the pains of making such a one as this, will find it greatly pre- 

 ferable to a magazine-bag. 



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