FLY-FISHING. 



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To dye Feathers various shades of Red, Amber, and Brown. 

 -—Boil them in the alum mordant above, then in an infusion of fustic 

 (table-spoonful to a pint of water), to bring them to a bright yellow • 

 then boil them in a dye of madder, peach or Brazil-wood. To set the 

 color, put s few drops of dyers' spirit (to be procured at any silk-dyer's) 

 into the last-mentioned dye. 



To stain Gut. — Put the gut into an infusion of onion-coatings 

 (above) ; when it is quite cold let it remain until it becomes as dark 

 as may be. Gut may be stained in an infusion of cold green tea. A 

 cold dye of logwood will turn it to a pale blue. 



After a little practice you will be enabled to do wonders with your 

 feathers ; perhaps, also, with your hands, which, if you operate exten- 

 sively on all the colors, will become quite a nondescript color. 



flies — continued. 

 We inserted the foregoing receipts in this place in preference to the 

 end of the trout-flies, inasmuch as, being copied from Ronald's work, 

 and having reference chiefly to his style of tying flies, which, by the 

 way, is the most correct, since he gives you a colored representation 

 of the fly, and then below it a colored one of his imitation. To this 

 list I have added thirteen more and three palmers, the raccoon being 

 one, and the three last of the palmers, before enumerated, and the 

 ten following ones : I need hardly observe that palmers are nothing 

 more than caterpillars. 



Hackle. 

 Red twist, 



BofVy. 



No. 1. Orange floss silk, 



3. 

 4. 

 5. 

 6. 

 1 



e. 



9. 

 10. 

 11. 



12. 



Black 



Yellow 



Bat's for, 



Mouse fur, 



Pale iron-blue mo- 

 hair with pale yel- 

 low mixed, 



Green gosling mohair, 



Black, " 

 Red " 

 Red " 

 Black " 



i. If 



Red. " 

 Ginger " 

 Red " 

 None, 



Thud. 



Silver, 



Gold, 



None, 



Silver, 



tt 



None. 



Silver, 



None, 



ii 



Silver, 



(legs picked out of body.) 

 None, None, 



Red, " 



Wm/js. 

 I "Woodcock out- 

 | side wing 



Partridge. 



Landrail. 



Starling. 



Partridge. 

 Landrail. 

 Starling. 

 Grouse buzzy 



Sea-swallow. 

 Partridge, 



