Practical Dry-Fly Fishing 



second-hand books, and failed to find 

 a single copy. Later, after another 

 equally thorough search for the same 

 author's "Dry -Fly Entomology," the 

 writer was compelled to send to Eng- 

 land for it. 



From his early boyhood the author 

 has been an angling enthusiast; as a 

 believer in heredity there exists in his 

 mind no doubt that some of his love 

 of angling was transmitted by his par- 

 ents and grandparents, to go no fur- 

 ther back. This love of his favorite 

 sport does not blossom like a flower 

 in the happy days of the fishing sea- 

 son, to wither away with the approach 

 of winter. Many winter evenings are 

 spent in his library, where he may se- 

 lect for his evening entertainment one 

 or more of several hundred of the most 

 interesting angling books written since 

 the days of Walton. He may go even 



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