CHAPTER IV 



Showing that Americans May Use 

 the Dry-Fly, Though There is No 

 American Fly-Fisher's Ento- 

 mology 



WHILE perhaps American an- 

 glers as a rule have suffered 

 no particular inconvenience 

 from being compelled to use English 

 patterns, yet who would not feel much 

 more pride if Americans were able to 

 procure flies of the highest class tied 

 in imitation of the insects found upon 

 our own streams? But there is one ob- 

 stacle that seems to make this impos- 

 sible at present. In 1836, seventy-six 

 years ago, Mr. Alfred Ronalds gave to 

 the English angling world a very com- 

 plete entomology, containing the names 



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