JULY 169 



kind. All men in sound health have a 

 natural liking for the bow and spear, or 

 other weapon of the chase ; and what all 

 sane men feel to be natural no man can 

 with assurance denounce as perverse. 



Meanwhile, since we took to the worm, 

 our basket has been filling ; and what is 

 this we see ? The sun has set, and the 

 breeze has dropped, and the stream is 

 aboil with rises ! Have we once more 

 to go back upon the track of our asser- 

 tions ? Indeed we have ! Though at 

 the height of summer the trout are in- 

 different towards flies in daytime, always, 

 when the atmosphere is fresh, as was 

 stated in May, they rise uncommonly 

 well between sunset and midnight. In 

 fact, they rise as briskly throughout these 

 hours as they do at mid-day in April. 

 What, then, on analysis of the belief of 

 our young friend and the gamekeeper and 

 the tackle-dealer, do we find to be the 

 truth ? Only that during the hours of 

 sunshine the trout tend to ignore flies 

 between the close of spring and the first 



