JULY 175 



the learned writers who discourse about 

 the woodlands and the garden, that the 

 present time, whatever it may be, is the 

 best of all the year. It is very good 

 in itself, and still better in what it is 

 leading to. This incontrovertible pro- 

 position establishes harmony between 

 these presents and our remark that May 

 was undoubtedly the briskest month in 

 the angler's season. In spring the angler 

 thinks in terms of the valley ; but in 

 summer, like Lady Breadalbane when it 

 is time to see to the red deer of the Black 

 Mount, he lifts his eyes and himself unto 

 the hills. Surely it is well to know that 

 there are waters in which the trout are 

 as lively in the months of summer as 

 those of other waters are in May ! The 

 angler who has the privilege of them can 

 keep company with spring until the first 

 hint of autumn, which comes in a north- 

 west wind at the close of the mid- August 

 rainstorm, revives the lakes and rivers of 

 the valleys. 



Deeply interesting are the discoveries 



