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warm days have come to an end, while there is 

 still abundance of food and everything that they 

 need. As the summer goes on it is felt more 

 and more that the glory of the woods of the 

 south of England is over, that they have sub-- 

 sided into a sombre monotony and silence, which 

 will last till autumn. One feels too that the 

 water meadows are a little too soft and that 

 the air lacks freshness; and so, without con- 

 sciously desiring a change, one begins to think 

 of rocks and keener air. The even-flowing 

 chalk stream, with its mills and dams and 

 hatches, the river which is so clear and gentle, 

 so docile and perfectly under control, seems just 

 a little tame, till at last there rises up before 

 one's mind the full-formed images of rough 

 noisy streams and great brown pools clearing 

 after a flood. One stands in thought beside 

 them, and is impatient to be really there. 



It may be easy to provide the change of scene, 

 if that is the only thing desired, but how can this 

 change be combined with the best of fishing from 

 the middle of July through August and into 

 September ? Some salmon rivers may, with the 

 help of lucky floods, give good sport at this 



