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To TIE HACKLES AND PALMERS. To make the first lesson 

 as easy as possible, suppose we tie a plain Ginger Hackle for 

 a drop-fly. It will be easier to make it on" a large hook, say 

 No. 4. Let us select the materials, and lay them before us : 

 viz., wrapping-silk, hook, floss-silk, a ginger hackle, and a 

 short stout piece of gut, as we intend it for a dropper. Now 

 let us begin : 



Figure 1 is a hook in its proper position, whether it is held 

 in the jaws of your pin- vice or between the thumb and fore- 

 finger of your left hand. You see that I have laid the silk 

 on near^he bend of the hook, and taken four or five turns, 

 the last one about an eighth of an inch from the head. 



Figure 2 shows that I have laid a short piece of gut (after 

 indenting it four or five times with my fore teeth) on the top 

 of the shank (underneath will do as well), and whipped it on 

 securely as far down as A, where I have fastened in a bit of 

 tawny yellow silk-floss, which should be about six inches 

 long. 



