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this month are hatching and on the water, more or less, every 

 day. The orange and needle browns are the only ones, of 

 the stone fly class, that remain ; the needles in their varie- 

 ties and best perfection ; and the orange browns, are excel- 

 lent for trout through the day. The drakes are numerous 

 in species and varieties, particularly the smaller tribes, 

 which swell their numbers above any other class. The 

 checkwing, light and dark drakes (watchets) in their grades 

 of sizes and shades, with the iron blues, are hatching on the 

 surface of the water, in the fore and afternoons, when many 

 are snapped by the fishes, in the face of the unconscious 

 angler, before they have used their wings. The duns are 

 hatching ; the second swarms of the light and freckled are 

 turning out ; which, with the little freckled dun, may be 

 tried in the daytime, and again in the evening. The spin- 

 ners are numerous, and good natural baits. The ants some- 

 times fall numerous on the waters this month, and are 

 greedily taken by the fish. 



SEPTEMBER. 



THE sun, with his summer, is departing, but leaves a full 

 lap to declining autumn. Trout, the prince of the sport, 

 is on the wane, the hour of his prime and his beauty is pas- 

 sing. The merry Smelt and gliding Grayling mingle their 

 charms with the lovely days of autumn. The air becomes 

 thinned of towering tribes of tiny flies ; but the waters 

 the wonderful waters ! half the life of our globe, which 

 fosters in fields of ice the huge leviathan, and nurtures in 

 its warm bosom the tender summer-bred fly, pours out its 

 motley stores. Swallows flock on the house top, meditat- 

 ing their long flight, and the martins mingle at even in the 

 willows their sonorous departing song. 



