CHAPTER XVII 

 The Darenth in June 



Surely the most delicious of all angling 

 months is that of the Midsummer. Even if 

 it be often enough the season of low water, 

 and bright sunshine throughout the greater 

 part of the day, it offers ample compensa- 

 tions to the trout fisherman in many other 

 respects. There is no time when the 

 meadows and stream-side are more delicious, 

 after, perhaps, a tramp of a mile or two 

 along the dusty highroad, than at this period 

 of the year. The evening fishing is not yet 

 in its prime, it is true, but then there is 



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