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THE TROUT. 
pinching it into a proper form, whip down and fasten off as 
before directed, which will bring both ends of the silk into 
the bent. After you have waxed your silk again, take three 
or four strands of ostrich feather, and holding them and the 
bent of your hook as at first directed, the feathers to your left 
hand and the roots in tlio bent of your hook, with that end 
of the silk which you have just now waxed, whip them three 
or four times round and fasten off ; then turning the feathers 
to the right, and twisting them and the silk with your fore- 
finger and thumb, wind them round the shank of the hook, 
still supplying the short strands with new ones, as they fail, 
till you como to the end and fasten off. When you have so 
done, clip off the ends of the feathers and trim the body of 
the palmer small at the extremity, and full in the middle, and 
wax both ends of your silk, which are now divided, and lie 
at either end of the hook. 
“ Lay your work by you ; and taking a strong bold hackle, 
with fibres about half an inch long, straighten the stem care- 
fully, and holding the small end between the fore-finger and 
thumb of your left hand, with thoso of the right stroke the 
fibres iho contrary way to that which they naturally lie; and 
taking the hook, and holding it as before, lay the hackle into 
the bent of the hook, with the hollow (which is the palest) 
side upwards, and whip it very fast to its place ; in doing 
whereof, be careful not to tie in many of the fibres; or if 
you should chance to do so, pick them out with the point of 
a very large needle. 
lt When the hackle is thus made fast, the utmost care and 
nicety is necessary in winding it on ; for if you fail in this, 
your fly is spoiled, and you must begin all again : to prevent 
which, keeping the hollow or pale side to your left hand, and 
as much as possible the side of the stem down on the dubbing) 
wind the hackle twice round; and holding fast what you 
have 60 wound, pick out the loose fibres which you may havo 
