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this month are hatching and on the water, more or less, every 
day. The orange and needle browns are the only ones, of 
the stone fly class, that remain ; the needles in their varie- 
ties and best perfection ; and the orange browns, are excel- 
lent for trout through the day. The drakes are numerous 
in species and varieties, particularly the smaller tribes, 
which swell their numbers above any other class. “The 
checkwing, light and dark drakes (watchets) in their grades 
of sizes and shades, with the iron blues, are hatching on the 
surface of the water, in the fore and afternoons, when many 
are snapped by the fishes, in the face of the unconscious 
angler, before they have used their wings. The duns are 
hatching ; the second swarms of the light and freckled are 
turning out; which, with the little freckled dun, may be 
tried in the daytime, and again in the evening. The spin-— 
ners are numerous, and good natural baits. The ants some- 
times fall numerous on the waters this month, and are 
greedily taken by the fish. 
SEPTEMBER. 
THE sun, with his summer, is departing, but leaves a full 
lap to declining autumn. Trout, the prince of the sport, 
is on the wane, the hour of his prime and his beauty is pas- 
sing. The merry Smelt and gliding Grayling mingle their 
charms with the lovely days of autumn. The air becomes 
thinned of towering tribes of tiny flies; but the waters— 
the wonderful waters !—half the life of our globe, which 
fosters in fields of ice the huge leviathan, and nurtures in 
its warm bosom the tender summer-bred fly, pours out its 
motley stores. Swallows flock on the house top, meditat- 
ing their long flight, and the martins mingle at even in the 
willows their sonorous departing song. 
