Fast-Growing Enthusiasm 



time it showed signs of weakening, 

 and I laid my rod on the top of the 

 barrier formed by the rocks and the 

 pine tree, clambered over as fast as I 

 could, picked up the rod again, and 

 the fish was soon in the net. 



By this time I had begun to be some- 

 what accustomed to the use of the dry- 

 fly, but still lacked the confidence in 

 myself necessary to handle it to the 

 best advantage. The following winter 

 I most fortunately came across Mr. 

 Halford's early books and read them 

 greedily. The naturalness of dry-fly 

 methods as described by him was ab- 

 solutely convincing, and I became en- 

 thusiastic over what I then began to 

 consider the most artistic and beauti- 

 ful of all methods of angling. After- 

 ward I had the great good fortune to 

 meet some of our dry-fly experts, and 

 now feel competent to go upon the 



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