CHAPTEE II. 



CONCERNING HIS OUTFIT. 



IT will obviously be a fair conclusion for any man 

 to draw, who is familiar with the contributions of 

 " Eed Quill " to the leading angling literature of 

 the day (extending over a period of forty years, and 

 during which time my evolution as a dry-fly purist 

 has been completed), that I am well qualified by 

 much practical experience to offer advice on a 

 multiplicity of subjects connected with the gentle 

 art in general, and the most fascinating form of it, 

 dry-fly fishing in particular. It is, therefore, in no 

 spirit of self -laudation, but with the modest desire 

 of imparting useful information to brethren of the 

 craft, especially to the tyro, that I again venture 

 upon the delicate task of writing the following 

 hints and advice in continuation of the subject, the 

 first part of which appeared in Baily's Magazine. 



And it is just because I am sure that the young 

 aspirant to the dry-fly art very much needs some 

 elementary and simple directions to guide him in 

 his inexperience during the earlier stages of his 

 career that I offer them. What I now say, therefore, 



