ii4 LETTERS TO YOUNG SPORTSMEN 



DOWN THAT SAME STREAM YOU SHOULD FLOAT YOUR 

 ARTIFICIAL FLIES. 



many a dry-fly fisherman make damning reference. It is 

 his bane and his undoing, but at the same time its avoidance, 

 in the various currents of the river, is the touchstone of his 

 expertness and the source of very much of the peculiar and 

 exclusive interest belonging to this special department of 

 the angler's art. 



