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three flies as good all-round killers, one or other of which will 

 generally bring fish to the basket. They are all hackle flies. 



As before observed a propos of lake flies, the great thing in 

 dressing all flies on these eyed hooks is to leave clear the 

 ' neck,' as shown in the diagram, to receive the jam-knot. The 

 length of the hook-shank is specially designed to allow of this. 



'furnace-brown' dressed on patent sneck-bend up-turn shank 

 eyed hook. 



I. The ' Blue upright,' dressed with yellowish-grey quill body and slate blue 

 hackle and whisks (no wings). 2. The ' Red spinner.' Pale crimson crewel 

 body, sparely ribbed with the linest gold thread (not oval) ; dark-red 

 (natural) cock's hackle with darker stem ; whisks, 3 fibres of hackle (no wings). 

 3. The' Furnace brown.' [A fly of my own, with which I have had sport in 

 the streams (and not infrequently in the lakes also) of England, Ireland, Scot- 

 land, and Wales] : — Body very dark chocolate-coloured silk, ribbed, sparely, 

 with fine gold thread (not oval) ; dark furnace-hackle, with darker stem ; whisk, 

 3 fibres of the same. 



Messrs. Farlow have also my dressings and patterns of these 

 flies.— H. C.-P.] 



