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1 8. Fern Fly, Sailor and Soldier. Hook, No. 9. 

 Wings to lie flat, for the failor, of a heron's wing feather; 

 for the foldier, of a red hen's feather, or the darkeft part 

 of a flarling's wing; body, orange filk; legs, a red hackle. 

 Buzz, a furnace hackle on the fame body. 



19. Alder. Hook, No. 9. Wings to lie flat, of a 

 woodcock's wing feather, or mottled feather of a cock 

 pheafant ; body, peacock's herl, or copper-coloured filk, 

 fome prefer mulberry ; legs, a blue hackle, almofl black. 

 Buzz, black or blue hackle on peacock herl body. 



20. Black Palmer. Hook, No. 8 or 9; body, black 

 oftrich's herl ribbed with filver twill; legs, black, or blood- 

 red hackle ; not a fly, but a caterpillar. 



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21. Green Drake. Hook, No. 6 or 7. Wings up- 

 right and full, of a drake's feather llained yellow ;* body, 

 yellow lilk, waxed a little, to give it a mottled appear- 

 ance ; legs, a gray partridge hackle flained a yellowifh 

 colour ; tail, three long llrands of a black hackle, or any- 

 thing you can get. Buzz, a drake's feather llained yellow 

 on the fame body. 



22. Gray Dr^.-r-Hook, No. 6 or 7. Wings up- 



* To ftain feathers yellow, boil fome fcrapings of the bark of 

 the barberry-tree, or root, and a fmall quantity of alum, in a pint 

 of rain-water, with as many drake's feathers as you require, for 

 about an hour, and you will find the latter of the right colour. 

 Or, boil the above in an infufion of alum, fuftic, and a little cop- 

 peras, and they will acquire the proper tint. 



