1(J4> BEST'S ART OF ANGLING. 



the evening, crawling across the road, or beaten 

 path, where they seldom appear but when they 

 are restless with an approaching change. 



Before any considerable quantity of rain is to 

 fall, m.ost living creatures are affected in such 

 sort, as to render them some way sensib'e of its 

 Approach and of the access of something new to 

 the surface of the earth, and of the atmosphere. 

 Mole:* work harder than ordinary, they throw up 

 moreeai th ,an.d sometimes come forth : the worms 

 do so too: ants are observed to stir about, and 

 bustle more than usually for some time, and then 

 retire to their burrows before the rain falls. All 

 sorts of insects and Hies are more stirring and busy 

 than ordinary. Pees are ever on this occasion in 

 fullest employ; but betake themselves all to their 

 hives, jf not too far for them to reach before the 

 storm arises. The common flesh-flies are more 

 bold and greedy : snails, frogs, and toads, appear 

 disturbed and unea?y. Fishes are sullen, and 

 made qualmish by the water, now more turbid 

 than before. Birds of all sorts are in action ; crows 

 are more earnest after their prey,, as are also swal- 

 lows and other small biids, and therefore they 

 fall lower, and 'fly nearer to the earth in search 

 of insects and other such things as they feed 

 upon. When the mountains of the north begin 

 to be capped with Jogs, the moor-cocks and other 

 birds quit them,, fly off in flocks, and betake 

 themselves to the lower lands for the time. Swine 

 discover great uneasiness ; as do likewise sheep, 

 cows, and oxen,, appearing more solicitous and 

 *ager in pasture than usual. Even mankind 

 themselves are not exempt from some sense of a, 

 change in their bodies. 



