Excerpt from The Book of the Dry Fly
Reading again this book, which was written in 1895-96, and revising it for a new edition, I recall some very good angling days. I probably had the notion of dry-fly fishing, the main principles of it, whilst a child, for my boyhood was spent among chalk hills and chalk streams. The Bourne took its rise in my brother's manor, and the Anton a few miles south at a spot once owned by my family. But I think I began to fish with the dry fly on the Kent Darenth at Farningham, though I recall one day before that on the Gloucestershire Coin at Fairford when I was at Oxford. I went there for the day with a college friend; I think he got a few small trout - know I got none. Seven or eight years later came my days on the Darenth.
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