156 CREEPER PISHING. 



pleasant; as in all the common feeding-streams, rough 

 or rippling, but especially in those streams with 

 pebbly margins the haunts of the insect the lightly 

 thrown creeper will prove a surer giant-killer than 

 Cotton's "most deadly killing fly," of which he sings. 

 When May has given place to June, and 



" When the sun gallopes in his full career, 



And glides the streames with heavenly Alchimy," 



the finest and thinnest streams covering good trouts 

 may be fished with success. By now and then cast- 

 ing to the very edge of the water, large trouts at 

 times may be captured, as they prowl about the 

 edges of the pebbled streams on the look out for 

 vagrant creepers and water- worms. We know that 

 they poach in such places, and remove the fences 

 that protect these unfortunate little animals. We 

 and others of our acquaintance, have several times 

 seen trouts especially so when the rivers were very 

 small from drought turn over pebbles with their 

 noses; and but for the food they procure in this 

 manner, when the rivers are low, we do not see how, 

 when taken, they could so often have large numbers 

 of creepers and water-worms in their maws, and also 

 such large quantities of water grubs, which are well 

 known to lie beneath the stones. The water-worms 



