CHAPTER I 



English Dry-Fly Methods Modi- 

 fied by American Ideas and 

 Conditions 



WHAT is a dry-fly?" 

 This questioiji, asked by 

 a prominent sportsman at 

 the annual Field Day of the Camp- 

 Fire Club of America, at Mr. Ernest 

 Thompson Seton's beautiful estate at 

 Cos Cob, Conn., in the latter part of 

 June, 1910, rather startled me for a 

 moment, as the man who asked it had 

 been a thorough out-door man all his 

 life; had visited nearly all the haunts 

 of big game in this country and in Can- 

 ada; had shot at different times moun- 

 tain sheep, mountain goat, moose, bear, 

 antelope, elk, caribou, various kinds of 

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