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brown, and house fly, may be tried, along with the hackles. 

 In the forenoon the aquatics of last month are hatching and 

 out, when the light mottled, and bloa browns, the check- 

 wing (hatching numerous, and probably the best), light and 

 dark drakes, may be tried ; and as they decline, in the 

 afternoon, tribes of smaller flies increase ; when the needle 

 and yellow brown (yellow Sally), little light, and little dark 

 drakes (some in their red dresses), the little freckled dun, 

 black and blue gnats, etc., may be fished until or after sun- 

 set, when the larger drakes and duns come out for twilight 

 fishing. Any of these flies may be changed for any of the 

 others, during fishing hours, as circumstances may require ; 

 and any that are not taken, change for those that are for 

 change and variety is the order of the day. 



JULY. 



THE stars of the spring are fading, but their splendour 

 remains in the trout ! Fat and capricious, the gilded mon- 

 arch selects his fulth from the good things that surround 

 him. When hot droughty days drain the streams to the 

 springs, when flies disperse through the warm air, and soar 

 up aloft with the swallow, the crystal streams are bare, and 

 bad to lure is the cunning quick-eyed trout. Seek him in 

 his brooks and shaded retreats screened from his view, 

 dib in his round with finest tackle the living house fly ; in 

 the evenings and twilight ply him with the duns, the drakes, 

 and the moths. After loud thunders and reeking rains 

 freshen and revive nature, float over the dark waters the 

 welcome fly, or jerk in his glimpse the glishing minnow, 

 nor leave him alone in his glory ! 



