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full yellow silk, to be ribbed with some silk of same 

 colour, unwaxed ; wings, from the quill-wing feather 

 of a cock pheasant, or may be cut from a sheet of 

 gutta-percha (pure), dyed in cold blue dye ;* legs, a 

 black cock's hackle stained yellow ; this, if rightly 

 made will form an excellent artificial fly, not to be 

 excelled by any combination of feathers and fur 

 alone. 



(Willow fly). Body, water rat's fur spun sparingly 

 on yellow silk ; legs and wings made buzz, from a 

 dark dun hackle, with a brownish tint in it, or a small 

 dark feather from the merlin hawk's wing. 



(Needle fly). Body, sable fur spun upon yellow 

 silk, dressed hackle with small brown feather from the 

 knob of a fieldfare's wing. This fly may be formed 

 by a strip of the enamelled quill of a peacock's 

 feather, which forms the alternate shades of ribs 

 beautifully. This has been introduced by a clever 

 southern angler. 



(Yellow Sally). This should never be dressed 

 winged ; it falls upon the water like a heavy beetle 

 would be supposed to do, therefore the wings not 

 being extended are not seen by the fish. The most 

 killing way is to hackle it palmerwise, with a white 

 hen's hackle dyed light yellow, or by the small feather 

 round a white pigeon's wing, stained as above ; the 

 body to be yellow mohair. 



The casual killers amongst the land flies may be 

 dressed as under : 



* Crayshaw's Crystal Aniline Dyes answer wonderfully well for 

 staining feathers, etc., of delicate hues. 



