Front matter
Reading edition

COPYRIGHT BY THE CENTURY CO.
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