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Blacker's Art of Fly Making, &c. · W. Blacker — chapter 26 of 26 · ~123 words · public domain

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Transcriber's Notes:

Obvious punctuation errors repaired.

Book uses both pearl-ash and pearl ash; salmon-fly and salmon fly. Varied hyphenation was retained. Text also uses archaic spelling, "scissars".

Page vii, "cloured" changed to "coloured" (buff-coloured fur and)

Page viii, "surperbly" changed to "superbly" (superbly painted to suit)

Page viii, "Britian" changed to "Britain" (any river in Britain)

Page 15, "growse" changed to "grouse" to match rest of usage (grouse hackle prepared)

Page 23, "pains" changed to "pain" (with a little pain)

Page 36, word "to" added to text (next to the root)

Page 75, "woodcook" changed to "woodcock" (woodcock or wren grackle)

Page 148, "hymalean" changed to "Hymalean" (hen Hymalean pheasant is an)

Page 166, "Arklaw" changed to "Arklow" (Arklow, on the river Ovoca)

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