FLY FISHING FOR GRAYLING. 227 



FLY FISHING FOR GRAYLING. 



CHILL OCTOBER DAYS. 



Since body of mine and rainy weather 

 Have lived on easy terms together. 



COLERIDGE. 



They have no song those sedges dry 



And still they sing. 

 It is within my breast they sing 



As I pass by. 

 Within my breast they touch a string, 



They raise a sigh, 

 'Tis but the sound of sedges dry, 



In me they sing. 



MEREDITH. 



RANKING well behind trout fishing as 

 regards excitement and expense just 

 as the trout in all these particulars 

 ranks behind the lordly salmon yet angling 

 for grayling in October and November, with the 

 fly, can bring a pleasure to the man of 

 moderate means who has a capacity for enjoying 

 open air sport, which too many of us are apt 

 to overlook. 



With the end of September he as likely as 

 not puts away his fly rod and sighs over the 

 early autumn fire in the evening, regretting 

 that shooting is beyond his means and attain- 

 ment. Similarly, many who find a subscription 

 to good trout water is annually growing more 



