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THE FORERUNNER OF THE SPLIT-BAMBOO]

THE IDYL OF THE SPLIT-BAMBOO

A Carefully Detailed Description of the Rod’s Building

Prefaced by

a Dissertation on the Joys of Angling there being appended some Information on the Home Cultivation of Silkworm-Gut and Suggestions on Landing-Nets and other Equipment, and for The Angler’s Camp

BY GEORGE PARKER HOLDEN, M.D., F.A.C.S.

PROFUSELY ILLUSTRATED

CINCINNATI STEWART & KIDD COMPANY PUBLISHERS]

COPYRIGHT, 1920, BY STEWART & KIDD COMPANY _All rights reserved_ COPYRIGHT IN ENGLAND

THIS ANGLERS’ BOOK IS DEDICATED FIRST OF ALL, TO THAT DEAR WOMAN WHO “LETS ME;” NEXT, TO THE MEMORY OF A FRIEND, SIDNEY HUGHES --A QUIET AND GENTLE SON OF HIS LOVED SOUTHLAND, WHERE HE DROPPED ASLEEP-- WIZARD WITH A FLY, AND TO WHOM I OWE MY FIRST INTRODUCTION TO TROUTING; AND, AFTER THESE, TO THAT GENIAL COTERIE OF CHERISHED COMPANIONS WITH WHOM IT HAS BEEN MY GOOD FORTUNE TO HAVE SPENT SOME OF THE MOST JOYOUS HOURS OF MY LIFE OUT-O’-DOOR