SUBAQUEOUS HAPPENINGS IN ART 21 



the distinct bite in the wind had given ample 

 warning that^ maugre the crisp yellow sunshine, 

 11.30 clanging from the cathedral spires left ample 

 time to get down to the water-side and put rod 

 and tackle together before the big dark olives or 

 the smaller and rather hghter olives, which warn 

 one to put up a Gold-ribbed Hare's Ear, put in an 

 appearance. April was three parts through, yet 

 the backwardness of the season made conditions 

 correspond more nearly to three weeks earlier in 

 the normal year. 



Soon everything was in readiness, and a couple 

 of dark Rough Olives, tied on gut, with dark starling 

 wing, heron herl body dyed in onion dye and 

 ribbed with fine gold wire, and hackle and whisk 

 of ginger, lightly dyed olive, were put into the 

 damper to soak, on the chance that the wet fly 

 might pay better than the dry. 



Noon and the quarter-past chimed from the bel- 

 fry, and then a big dark ohve drifted on to an eddy 

 near by, and, hfted out on the meshes of a landing- 

 net, was identified. The hint was enough. One 

 of the flies in soak — tied on No. i hooks — was 

 knotted on, and the surface was scanned for the 

 first dimple. Presently it was located — such a 

 tiny, infinitesimal, dacelike dimple, hinting rather 

 than proving the movement of a trout. It was 

 hardly noticeable in the turmoil made by the 

 strong ruffle of the upstream wind against the 

 somewhat full current of the stream. It was 



