THE DRY-FLY SEASON 231 



we can work hard when there is inducement, and 

 take things easy when invitations are few. There 

 is as much variety as on the river ; long casts 

 and short are in demand ; we have to study direc- 

 tion, and accurately lay the fly on a rise, close 

 to a bed of weed or clump of rustling reeds, or 

 over a submerged rock lit up by the sun. 



Anglers are all happy in September, for they 

 live only in the present, and refuse to remind 

 themselves that they are about to lay aside for 

 a season the faithful, deadly dry-fly rod. 



