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stout gut with well-waxed silk. Finish off as shown 

 in the woodcut describing the modes of fastening on 

 hooks. Have your waxed silk long enough to work 

 back over the body. After securing the end of a 

 strand of red German wool at the tail, wind this 

 evenly round the shank of the tied hook. When 

 within a short distance of the head, secure the wool 

 and nip off its loose end. Cut a long pair of wings 

 from a white goose feather, lay them side by side, and 

 whip them fast at the head, fasten off, cover the silk 

 whipping at the head with melted red sealing-wax, 

 covering all the space 'between the wings and the 

 head of the hook, and the fly is complete. 



Feathers dyed red are sometimes used with white, 

 mounted alternately. 



Marks. 



Too much importance cannot be attached to this 

 subject, as much of the fisherman's success or other- 

 wise depends on his practising his art where a suffi- 

 cient number of fish are to be found to be deluded by 

 it. Some particular spots are kept profoundly secret by 

 their fortunate discoverers, and much art and cunning 

 are made use of to deceive as to the whereabouts of such 

 places. Fishing grounds, as they are called, are formed 

 by carefully noting on the shore such conspicuous 

 objects as points of land, high rocks, buildings, or trees. 

 Bringing them exactly in a line by a third object, and 



