leather, or other preservatives. It is a good way to gum them in rows, in a book, placing a strip of paper over the quills. The most necessary feathers are: hackles from the neck of blue dun hens, especially those with a ginger-coloured edging hackles from the neck, and near the tail of game cocks, both red and furnace: hackles from the neck of a black Spanish cock scapular feathers of the woodcock or grouse : and brown mottled feathers from a partridge's back. These, with wings of the starling, landrail, and hen pheasant, and tail feathers of the wren, with some peacock and ostrich herl, may suffice to begin with. Some grey and brown mottled feathers from the wild drake may also be provided.

Fly Making.

Many books, after trying to tell us how To MAKE A FLY, very justly add, that the art cannot be communicated by writing, the practice must be seen. We shall follow the fashion by way of furnishing a few hints for those who are unable to meet with a friend to direct them.

1. Take a piece of very fine round gut, and singe it in a candle at one extremity, in order that it may be less liable to slip after being tied to the hook, previously waxed. Then holding a fine silk thread lightly waxed with soft shoemaker's wax, A B C D, plate 3, fig. 1, in one

hand, whip a part of it three or four times round the end of the shank of the hook, beginning to whip at B, and leaving a few inches of thread at A B hanging down, with a pair of forceps, or little weight at the end of it.

2. Hold the burnt end E, fig. 2, of the gut ECF, in contact with the shank of the hook, and wind tightly the portion of thread, CD of fig. 1, first once or twice round the gut close to the end of the shank, fig. 2, and then over the portion of gut CE, the three or four coils B C, already made, and the shank of the hook, CBE, leaving out the piece of thread, A B, still hanging down.

3. Bring two or three stylish whisks from a red hackle into the position shown in fig. 3, and bind them securely there, for the tail, by means of the same end (c, d) of silk as was last used. Bind in, at the same time, the extremity of a piece of fine gold twist (e, f), and also one end of some dubbing of orange and red floss silk mixed. Then spin the floss silk on to the remnant (c, d) of thread, and wind it on the shank, or wind it on the shank without spinning.

4. Run the remnant (c, d) round the shank, as far as B, and make it fast there with the thread A B; then wind the gold twist (e, f) over the coils made by c, d in the manner shown

D

in fig. 4, and make it fast also with the thread A B. This completes the body.

5. Bring the butt end of the red hackle stained amber colour into the position shown in fig. 5, tie it there by means of the well-waxed thread, A B, and cut off the projecting piece (G) of the hackle.

6. Wind the other part of the hackle, B H, fig. 5, two or three times round the upper end of the body, and bind it tightly and neatly there with A B, and in such manner that the fibres may stand as shown in fig. 6. This represents

the legs.

7. Take two pieces, as shown in fig. 6, from the under covert feather of a starling's wing, and bind them on (with the butt end towards the top of the shank) firmly and neatly, at nearly the same place B (a little nearer to the top of the shank). Part them, if you choose; snip off the butt ends obliquely, bind the short stumps down upon the shank (so that they may not be seen), and fasten off. You will now possess a Great Red Spinner complete, provided always that you have seen a little more of the art than you have here read, and that you have been yourself a tolerably good dubbing-spinner.

To make a Buzz-FLY with a hackle (see fig. 30, plate 14), the upper or pointed end of the hackle