CHAPTER VII 



JULY 



A Lull, apparently Summer Languor Not an Unbroken 

 Rule Worms are now In Season A Full Basket 

 The Water-Level : 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 Tullibardine An Unrecorded 

 Episode in the War with the South-African Republics. 



SOME anglers think that trout, in common 

 with flowers and song-birds, are at their 

 best in spring. Of such was a damsel 

 who said to me, just arrived in the 

 Highlands and anxious to go out on a 

 loch, " O yes, we'll go ; but the fishing 

 is now over for the year." As summer 

 was still young, this was astonishing ; but 

 the lady held to her opinion. The game- 

 keeper, she said, had told her that trout- 



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