

ACKNOWLEDGMENT 



FIBST of all I desire to thank the Editor and 

 Owner of Outdoor Life for the privilege of pub- 

 lishing these papers. I desire here to thank both 

 the talented authors and courteous publishers for 

 permission to use brief quotations from the fol- 

 lowing books: Wm. C. Harris' "Trouts of 

 America," Macmillan Co.; H. P. Wells' "Fly 

 Rods and Fly Tackle," Harper and Bros. ; Alex- 

 ander's "Log of the North Shore Club" and Dr. 

 Breck's "Way of the Woods," G. P. Putnam's 

 Sons; Henry Van Dyke's, "Fisherman's Luck," 

 Charles Scribner's Sons. No angling library 

 could be considered complete without all these 

 works, to which should be added "American Food 

 and Game Fishes." Undoubtedly my writing 

 has been colored by other books, but to my knowl- 

 edge these books are the only ones quoted. 



O. W. SMITH. 



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