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tempted to acclimatize or transplant flies has been, like 

 my own, so uniformly unsuccessful that I am reluctantly 

 compelled to arrive at the conclusion that, although a 

 most fascinating experiment, " le jeu ne vaut pas la 

 chandelle." 



In conclusion, I should like to add a few words of a 

 personal nature. For more than thirty years I have 

 devoted every spare moment to the study of the dry- 

 fly fisherman's art, and have in this book striven to 

 include everything which can in any way tend to 

 elucidate the theory and practice of the fishing, the 

 entomology, or the making and management of a dry- 

 fly fishery. If I have omitted some essential point the 

 reader must kindly credit me with having done so 

 inadvertently, and not from malice prepense. I fully 

 realize that, like every other form of sport, the cult 

 of the dry-fly is likely in the future to be further 

 developed and improved in matters of detail. Any such 

 development or improvement which may perchance 

 occur to me, or be suggested by any of my numerous 

 friends, will, I hope, be incorporated in a series of 

 supplements if my publishers, with their customary 

 urbanity and desire to assist, will consent to publish 

 such supplements. 



