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L. Wood The Junglecock-and-Black James 

 Stewart Large Flies Mysteriously Successful 

 Precedents from Bygone Times Testimony 

 of Ancient Tackle-Books On Loch-na-Craig 

 Lochleven Trout in the Highlands The 

 Moness Burn The Provost off-Duty What 

 Might be Made of Burns The Evening Rise . 99 



CHAPTER VI 



JUNE 



Lochleven Its Puzzling Fish Are they Seatrout ? 

 Why Worry? The Scene at the Jetty 

 System of Drifts Punctual Flies Dashing 

 Trout Fear and Hope " A Burst of Flies" 

 Thoughts on the Weather After all, a 

 Good Day A Strange Spectacle Is the Devil 

 really Dead ? The Mayfly ! . . . .132 



CHAPTER VII 



JULY 



Lull, apparently Summer Languor Not an 

 Unbroken Rule Worms are now In Season 

 A Full Basket The Water- Le vel : in 

 England and in Scotland Mountain Lakes 

 A Day on Loch Ordie Luxuriance of Nature 

 on the Hills Racial Differences among Trout 

 Some Highland Lochs Red Trout and 

 White Trout Are Pike Objectionable? 

 Donald Sim Henry Haxton Lord Tulli- 

 bardine An Unrecorded Episode in the War 

 with the South-African Republics . . .161 



