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has often been called of his sport only 

 lends it additional zest. A most promis- 

 ing day may prove a disappointment so 

 far as actual fishing is concerned ; but no 

 angler was ever the worse off for having 

 made an honest, if unsuccessful, attempt 

 to induce the trout to take his flies or 

 bait. " Atte the least/' says Dame Juli- 

 ana de Berners, "he hath his holsom 

 walke and mery at his ease, a sweet ayre 

 of the sweete armony of f owles. And yf 

 the angler take fysshe, surely thenne is 

 there noo men merier than he is in his 

 spyryte." 



A mention of the uncertainty of fish- 

 ing which suggests the fastidiousness of 

 trout, brings to remembrance one hot 

 day in June when I thought that, owing 

 to the coldness of the preceding month, 

 good sport was probably to be had with 

 the Stone-fly, or failing that, its larva, the 

 Creeper. There was a warm wind from 

 the south-west, and the earth seemed to 



