1 64 THE STONE- FLY. 



THE STONE. FLY. 



[OR BORDER "MAY-FLEE."] 



BY THE EDITOR. 



I am the daughter of earth and water, 

 And the nursling of the sky. 



Shelley. 



STONE-FLIES come into existence we mean nu- 

 merously so generally about the second week of 

 June, and continue a good bait for about three 

 weeks or little more. "We have found clusters of 

 flies, however, beneath large stones in the end of 

 March. They are found under the dry stones 

 at the side of the water wherein they live in 

 creeperhood. For a day or two after merging into 

 stone-flies they are tender and somewhat helpless, 

 and many of them perish when exposed to cold east 

 winds. Great numbers, too, are blown into the river 

 before their time when the weather is windy their 

 wings being so large that they act like sails, and 

 drive the insects in all directions in such weather. 

 The flies are therefore most plentiful in mild seasons ; 

 but in all seasons they are most numerously to be 

 gathered in places where the banks of the river 

 shelter them from the wind. But a single flood, if 



