The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-07-19
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seem alive.
He puts the gummed moths on the table
in his own room and sits down before them
and studies them infinitely. He goes over
them again and again, not touching them
lest his fingers should brush away some OF
the bloom more light and perishable than
the bloom upon the sun-kissed side of a
peach.
He notes each brilliant spot and speck,
the wonderful manner in which each seq
ment is distinct from another, and yet how
alike they all seem at a glance OF the eye.
He finds now that this Ia a very brilliant
moth. though it seemed but dull greenish
thing when 1t struck the water and the
flashing fish leaped.
some that no rainbow ever had. To be
sure, these hecks Of color are minute, but
they are there and must be initiated or the
leaper away at the bottom OF the pool will
know the difference
All the threads and feathers and other
materials are brought out and put within
easy reach. Then the matching process
begins. This should be an interesting
problem for some natural born figurer, shut
up in the harmless ward ola home for the
incurably insane:
1t II takes a smart woman all of one
morning to match piece Of ribbon OF no
unusual shade. and then all of the after
noon TO tell her neighbor about it, how long
should 1t take an inexperienced man to
match the forty colors OF greenish moth
with tangled mass OF feathers OF every
tinge from elephants breath to ashes OF
rosesp"
Anyhow, the man begins He seizes a
DIT OF thread and passes II gently along
the moths body TO see il it blends II It
does not, he takes another and so on until
ne gets the exact hue. That Is for the body
of the 1y
He notes the markings of the body and
gets other threads to At; that is for the
rings about the body, or the zigzags or
what ever the shape OF the tracings may be
Ihen he chooses q thread for wrapping
that will not show against the body thread,
OF the insect is accomplished.
The head he will have less trouble with
for It is apt to be OF dull black, and If he
does not care TO insert the eyes, his beads
being all too large, he initiates them with a
couple OF India ink spots. He will have
the wings TO choose next. and here his real
trouble will begin, for moths have as many
diHering wings as there are differing moths,
and no man may hope to copy them all.
;. Inc best he can do is to make a stab at
IL, and for this purpose he will get up, put
on his coat, 20 down town to the supply
store and got lot OF assorted oil paints
He will lose an hour or two telling his friends
Whdt ne 10 uoIngI tnon 90 Dack nome anu
start to work In sure-enough fashion.
Having wrapped the shank OF the hook
In imitation OF the moths body, being
careful to leave enough OF the bend OK
posed TO permit the barb to enter properly,
and having put on the head, he will make
the wings. Unless II be a very extraor.-
binary moth. he will be able to do a good
deal with the skin taken from the inner
side OF the scales Of the carp which the
supply store man will have sold him long
before This skin Is tough, light, stif, OF
course indestructible by water, and of
an opaque character that takes paint well.
IL should be cut, of course, In imitation
OF the wings, and then coiored with
caInel's-hair brush, very, very lightly,
and each successive coat OF the paint should
DO allowed TO dry thoroughly before the
next la applied. BY and by, after many
trials. many failures. many partial successes
during which all of the supply OF skin will
have been used up and the supply store
visited three times, the wings will begin TO
approach the miraculous lightness, delicacy
and INDISPENSABLE green OF tho originals >,
Once this product grows under the hand
OF the master until II is nature itself, the
carp-skin wings will be fastened on stroT gly
with thread or q fine silver wire, and the
artificial moth will stand rigidly by the
natural moth. challenging comparison;
By that time. probably the fish will have
quit rising TO that particular kind Of moth,
but what will be the oddsp The fy-fsher
will have built him moth OF which he can
be justiHably proud.