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caught in the deepest places, in ponds, or still 

 streams, early in the morning, or late in the 

 evening, by a very cautious and adroit master 

 of the angle, with paste, wasp-grub, dock-grub, 

 or grasshopper. Most fish will now bite eager- 

 ly, and fly-fishing is become animated, espe- 

 cially for trout, which is in its glory. The 

 angler's life is now delightful : the country 

 about him is a paradise, full of greenness and 

 flowers, which perfume the air ; the neigh- 

 bourhood of the water is refreshing ; the birds 

 shower their music down upon him from every 

 bough, and now, if ever, he has sport to his 

 heart's content. 



Flies. From the 1st to the 24th the green 

 drake and stone fly ; from the 12th to the 24th 

 the gray drake and the owl fly, late at night ; 

 a purple hackle, a gold twist hackle, a flesh fly, 

 the peacock fly, the ant fly, a brown gnat, a 

 little black gnat, a grasshopper. 



