it and holding it between the middle and third fingers of your left hand. Then take your link of gut with a single knot at the end, and having moistened it in your mouth, place the knotted end parallel with the shank, and between the shank and your left forefinger, and let the gut pass down the shank a little more than half way towards the bend. Take your silk between the forefinger and thumb of your right hand, and whip it tightly round the shank and gut three times in the direction of the bend. Put your silk as before between the middle and third fingers of your left hand. You have now finished the first operation, that of attaching the hook and gut together, and bear in mind that in dressing all flies this operation is thus performed. Now take your hackle feather, and having denuded it of the down on either side its stem, place it against the shank of the hook on the side nearest your body, with its root pointing towards the bend of the hook. Then, and in the same direction, whip the silk sharply three times round the hook, gut, and end of the feather, and cut off, with fine-pointed small scissors, any of the root that remains. Having done so, take the feather by its point between the thumb and forefinger of the right hand, and wind it in close laps five or six times— the number of laps to be proportioned to the size of the hook and fly-down the shank towards the bend, then make two laps of the silk over the point of the feather, cut away with your scissors what remains wavered by the silk of the point of the feather, and, lastly, waxing your silk again, fasten with two half-hitches opposite the point of your hook, or just where the bend begins. These directions, if followed out, are the foundation of fly-tying. After the learner has learned to make the above with ease, he can readily teach himself the rest. The following is a recipe for the best wax for flytying. Take two ounces of yellow resin, one dram of beeswax, put them in a pipkin and let them simmer for ten minutes, then add a quarter of an ounce of lard, and simmer for a quarter of an hour longer. Then pour it into a basin of cold water, and while yet warm work it with the fingers to give it tenacity. Judson's dyes are the best and simplest for dyeing feathers, silk, &c. The fly at the end of the line is called a stretcher, and the next the dropper. The first dropper should be about a yard from the stretcher, and the second about three-quarters of a yard from the first; made on pieces of gut four or five inches long to detach at pleasure. May-fly (fig. 1). The wings are made of the light feather of a grey drake, dyed yellow; the body of amber-coloured mohair, ribbed with green silk; the head of peacock's harl; and the tail of three long hairs from FIC.I a sable muff. This is one of the most killing flies for trout; it generally rises about the end of May, and continues for about three weeks; it is found in great plenty in sandy, gravelly rivulets. Great White Moth (fig. 2). The wings are made of FIC. 2. a feather from the wing of a white owl; the body of white cotton; and a white cock's hackle wrapped round the body. This is a night fly, and should be used in a dark, gloomy night. Bee-fly (fig. 3). This is an excellent chub-fly, and is in use during the summer months. The wings are made from the feathers of a blue pigeon's wing; the body of chenil of various colours, arranged in stripes in the following order: black, FIC.3. white, light yellow, white, black and white; the legs of a black hackle; and the body dressed thick. FIC.4. Red Palmer (fig. 4). The body of this is made of dark red mohair, ribbed with gold twist, and wrapped with a red cock's hackle. Palmers are all good killing baits, and may be used all the fishing season. We give these specimens for the young angler to practise upon. When he has accomplished the art of fly-making, he will prefer making them after his own fashion, and it is always best to make the fly you wish to imitate-one that you know frequents the locality you propose fishing in. The following flies are also favourites with the best anglers :— Landing Net. The ring of this can be made of a common cane, to which is fastened a small net, with |