CHAPTER XIV 



Two Old Trout of the Pools, and 

 the Little Dry-Fly that Fi- 

 nally Accomplished Their Ruin 



THE author's early experiences 

 with the floating fly were 

 neither fruitful nor encourag- 

 ing; but he fully realizes that this 

 lack of success was entirely his own 

 fault, and was due both to a lack of 

 knowledge of dry-fly methods and to 

 an insufficiently aroused interest in 

 them. One day several years ago he 

 saw in a tackle shop some flies differ- 

 ent from any in his fly -books, and hav- 

 ing been told that they were the Eng- 

 lish floating flies, laid in a small stock 

 of them, while the tackle-dealer briefly 

 explained how they were used. After- 



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