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Title: The encyclopaedia of sport
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Suffolk and Berkshire, Henry Charles Howard, Earl of, 1833-1898 Peek, Hedley Aflalo, Frederick G. (Frederick George), 1870-1918
Subjects: Horses Sports Games
Publisher: London : Lawrence and Bullen
Contributing Library: Webster Family Library of Veterinary Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Tufts University

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as to taper the body. Bind in the whisksat the tail and take one turn under them. Then tiedown herl, quill, floss, tinsel, or whatever the bodymaterial is to be (except dubbing), and the ribbing, ifany, and whip back to the shoulder. If dubbing beused, spin on the dubbing before whipping back. Windthe body material and ribbing, if any, to the shoulder.Make fast at the shoulder with two turns of silk. Windthe hinder hackle so as to force the wings upright andbring the silk through so as to secure the turns. Windthe front hackle, secure it in like manner, and finish atthe head with the whip finish. Some dressers only useone hackle wound altogether in front of or altogetherbehind or partly before and partly behind the wings, andthey finish with the whip finish, or two turns behind thewings. The latest novelty is to use yet a third hackle,a hens or other soft plumaged birds in front of the wings,or, in wingless hackled floaters, instead of them. To dress a Winged Palmer, Sedge or Rail—
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K y ^ TLRKEV) THE ENCYCLOP--EDIA OF SPORT Having tied on the wings as before clescriberl, tie in twococks hackles as described in the last method, and a thirdfor winding down the body, whip to the tail, tie in thebody material, unless it be dubbing, and some fine wire,and twist and whip back to the shoulder. Wind on thebody material and secure at the shoulder, cutting off thewaste ends. Wind the hindmost hackle in open laps tothe tail, secure with a turn or two of the wire or twist,and bring that through the successive turns of the hackleto the shoulder. Here secure it and cut away the waste.Wind the second hackle close behind the wings, and thefirst close in front securing each as before described, andfinish with the whip finish. To dress Detached Bodied Flies—Detached bodiesare usually of india-rubber, gut, or hair wound on a splithogs bristle, doubled round a hook, the whisks beingbound in at the tail. The bristle is subsequently setastride the eyed hook, behind the wings if the

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