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The idyl of the split-bamboo

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Two boys, standing, put on a lure to a fishing line. A third boy, back to viewer, is fishing in the pond beyond.
Two boys, standing, put on a lure to a fishing line. A third boy, back to viewer, is fishing in the pond beyond.

COPYRIGHT BY THE CENTURY CO.

THE FORERUNNER OF THE SPLIT-BAMBOO

Sketch of a fish caught on the end of a line, and a net about to bring the fish out of the water. Text below is overlaid on the image.
Sketch of a fish caught on the end of a line, and a net about to bring the fish out of the water. Text below is overlaid on the image.

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

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