Angling with the Fly. 22$ 



will be more likely to gain a substantial reward for 

 his exertions, as lie will certainly the better consult 

 his personal comfort, if he select, for his first noc- 

 turnal venture, the night succeeding a hot sultry 

 day, when the sky is clear and a balmy breeze 

 blows softly from the west, and when no dew 

 drenches the grass and no mist enshrouds the 

 stream. 



If he have come to the water early in the evening, 

 he may suitably open the ball with the dance of 

 the gloamin' flies, whose airy grace seldom fails to 

 turn the heads of even the least impressionable 

 of the finny fellows below. And after night-fall, 

 what then ? why, " on with the dance ! " only be 

 careful to change the dancers ; for in the darkened 

 hours and till the moon appears, the portlier persons 

 of the night-born moths are best devised to fascinate 

 the fickle. And when the moon deigns to look 

 down from on high and honour the sports with her 

 gracious presence, if she find that you have again 

 led forth the smaller flies of graceful mien to dance 

 beneath her gaze, hers will be no merely passive 

 patronage and formal recognition. A recipient of 

 light herself, she will, in the gratitude of indebted- 

 ness, freely and playfully shed her lustre on the 

 stream, and bring gleaming life to its surface. 

 Indeed, so far as the pleasures of small-fly fishing 

 are concerned, it is then that there " comes in the 

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