96 ‘LIST OF FLIES. 
the genial breath of air that imparts vigour and action to 
the flies, gives spirit and appetite to the fish. 
FAREWELL, the homely village’ Inn! and adieu to the 
fisherman’s revels! Farewell, flyfishers! The elements of 
your art are all laid prostrate ; your sports get starved and 
solitary, and gone are the days of its charms; the scenes 
are changed; murky mists and rains, and ominous sable 
clouds now darken the shortened day; the torrent’s roar 
swells in the gale, and howls and rattles through the leaf- 
less woods. The lightsome day, the leafy shade, and the 
flowery banks, have passed away. The warblers have fled, 
the lark, the blackbird, and the thrush, swelled their wild 
carol—but now they are silent all. Fishermen, farewell ! 
