ON THE FORDS OF TEME tog 
there was much to learn, much was learnt, about 
the grayling, it was dry fly that was “ the thing.” 
Lord Grey, in his “Fly Fishing,” says, “In 
fact the fly must float as if it were buoyant, 
cheerful and in the best of spirits—natural flies 
having the appearance of being very frivolous 
and light-hearted.” This exactly expresses how 
both hackled and winged patterns took my eye. 
In the same book the author has, of course, 
much more to say about dry-fly fishing, and he 
says it not only with knowledge and wisdom but 
with irresistible charm, As an Englishman, I 
pay my respectful and grateful homage to that 
great man for all—and it is very much !—that he 
has done for England and our Empire; as a 
fisherman—one who loves fishing—may I be 
allowed to thank him for that phrase about the dry 
fly, “very frivolous and light-hearted”? Asa 
matter of fact, on the Teme, when the winged 
dry fly, with wings so primly cocked, sailed 
saucily along, the mere spectacle used to give me 
pure, wholesome fun, A brother angler tells me 
that the fat complacency of a big red pike float 
affects him in the sameway. Sol am not singular 
in the matter. 
When the visitor from Stroud had to go, so 
good had been his company that I felt again the 
pangs of loneliness, And then, on the Saturday 
afternoon, as I was looking out of my bedroom 
window, whence I could get a good view of 
the river, whom should I see coming on his 
