60 JUNE. 



sufficient blessings to pour upon my head. They 

 never dined more happily, I never felt such joy. 

 The remaining brace, and a few shillings I had 

 fortunately with me, sent them smiling on their 

 route ; and it is strangely true, that ever since 

 I have been more successful on that part of 

 the stream than any other, as if in remembrance 

 of the happy circumstance I have just described. 

 The best rules laid down for classing your 

 Flies during each month, have failed most fre- 

 quently to produce successful results. I have 

 often observed, that which is in season passes 

 uninterrupted, when the very opposite in colour 

 and size will immediately be seized : this cir- 

 cumstance I do not remember to have been ac- 

 counted for in any work which I have read, but 

 really think, if the fish are on the feed, they 

 will take any seasonable Fly that first offers 

 itself. They, like us, are only dainty when not 

 hungry. The insect most likely to be successful 

 during the whole of June, and probably the 

 next month too, is the Alder Fly ; the eggs are 



