io8 WHEN THE SEWIN COME 



streams are usually in better condition 

 this month than they have been through- 

 out the summer, there are many other 

 reasons why September fishing is held 

 in such high esteem. The fish are not 

 satiated with natural food ; they seem 

 to have thrown off the lassitude of mid- 

 summer, and feed now as hungrily as 

 they did during the first rise of the 

 March Brown. The angler who, in the 

 sultry days of July, cast his flies among 

 the innumerable host of insects that 

 danced over the water, and who could 

 not but exclaim of his own feeble imita- 

 tions, "What are they among so many ? ' ' 

 was playing against heavy odds. Now 

 all that is changed. The trout finds that, 

 day by day, food is diminishing, and his 

 appetite sharpens accordingly. There is 

 a freshness in the air which makes the 

 work of the angler easier, and those per- 

 sisting flies, that persecuted his perspir- 

 ing face as he waded through the tall 



