xiv PREFACE 



To the proprietors and editor of " The Field " my 

 grateful thanks are also due for allowing me once 

 more to reproduce all or any part of my many articles 

 in that great paper. They have also acceded to my 

 request and that of the author, Mr. M. E. Mosely, to 

 quote copiously from articles of his in " The Field." 



My warmest thanks, too, are due to my dear old 

 friend Mr. William Senior, who has read in proof and 

 revised this like every other of the books I have 

 written. The practical advice of so able and ex- 

 perienced an author and dry-fly fisherman has contri-, 

 buted in a great degree to improving the style and 

 correcting many crudities in my composition. My 

 friend Mr. Hugh T. Sheringham has also placed me 

 under further obligations by reading the proofs, sug- 

 gesting many valuable additions, and in many ways, 

 improving the style of " Modern Development of the 

 Dry-Fly " and of this my latest bantling. 



Frederic M. Halford. 



6, Pembridge Place, W. 



