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head, and the water was too fast for it to be worth 

 the while of a fish of his cahbre to turn and follow 

 a mere nymph. The smaller fish was in a position 

 to be covered, and the moment the nymph came 

 to him under water he had it as a matter of course. 

 Possibly, in the same position the larger trout 

 might have done the same. 



OF TWO SATURDAY AFTERNOONS. 



They were consecutive. Both were in August, 

 1909, and the reason why they are recorded is not 

 because of any remarkable success, but because 

 they illustrate varying conditions on the same 

 river, proving amenable to varying treatment. 



The first found me by the water-side soon after 

 two o'clock. The morning rise was completely 

 over. Not even a grayling was rising. The water 

 was deadly still. A full stream was running, 

 because the hay-makers were in the meadows, and 

 no water that could be kept out was being let into 

 ditches and carriers ; so it was no good exploring 

 them for stray risers, as at other times I might 

 have done. For some time I explored likely 

 places under the sedges with floating flies — No. i 

 Red Sedge with hare's-ear body, Red Ant, and 

 Tup's Indispensable — but without eliciting the 

 faintest response. Then about five o'clock I put 

 up a wet Greenwell's Glory, and cast it upstream, 

 wet, into every little likely pool between the bank 

 and the weed-bed which grew intermittently a 



