DRY-FLY MEDITATIONS gg 



pared for anything is almost irresistible, but I question 

 whether it adds much to one's sport or pleasure. I 

 have long had a secret conviction that the really happy 

 angler is he who carries a spare cast and three points 

 in an old tobacco-pouch, twelve flies in a matchbox 

 or, better, six flies in a pill-box a duster in his pocket, 

 and an oil-bottle slung to a button ; and he can even 

 dispense with the last, because he can anoint his six 

 flies before he goes out. 



