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with the thumb and forefinger of one 

 hand, and the line is then carefully 

 rubbed down with a soft rag to re- 

 move the superfluous fat. The pur- 

 pose of using deer fat is to make the 

 line float more readily. It also pre- 

 serves the line and keeps it soft and 

 flexible. 



In the series of magazine articles al- 

 ready referred to, entitled "Practical 

 Dry-Fly Fishing for Beginners," the 

 author explained just what he had in 

 mind when he used the word "be- 

 ginner"; and as this book is intended 

 merely to carry out the idea that in- 

 spired his first writings on the subject, 

 namely, to lend a helping hand to the 

 dry-fly beginner, it may not be out of 

 place to close this chapter with a quo- 

 tation from that article: 



While it has been made plain that these words 

 are written for the beginner only, yet I hope that 



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