THE GAME FISHES OF THE WOELD 



of its sylvan glades and glens. Christoplier Nortli gives some 

 idea of this in the following : 



' I'm wrapped up in my plaid, and lyin' a' my length on a bit green 

 platform, fit for the fairies' feet, wi' a craig hangia' ower me a thousand 

 feet high, yet bright and bahny a' the way up wi' flowers and briars, 

 and broom and birks, and mosses maist beautiful to behold wi' halt-shut 

 ee, and through aneath ane's arm guardin' the face frae the cloudless 

 sunshine ; and perhaps a bit bonny butterfly is resting wi' faulded wings 

 on a gowan, no a yard frae your cheek ; and noo waukening out o' a 

 simmer dream, floats awa' in its wavering beauty, but, as if unwilling to 

 leave its place of mid-day sleep, comin' back and back, and roun' and 

 roun' on this side and that side, and etthn in its capricious happiness to 

 fasten again on some brighter floweret, tiU the same breath o' wund that 

 lifts up your hair sae refreshingly catches the airy voyager and wafts her 

 away into some other nook of her ephemeral paradise.' 



It is an injustice to all these streams, these little rivers 

 in the affections of some anglers, to mention one and not aU : 

 the Avon, Hamoaze, Dart, Erme, Tamer, Tavy, Eve, Thames, 

 Arun, Ouse, Bother, Trent, Wharfe, Mdd, Swale, Tees, Stom-, 

 and so on indefinitely ; a region of delight to owner or angler 

 whose luck leads him into their particular sphere of attractions. 

 One cannot write of trout without thinking of Walton, who so 

 happily combined angling, the song of milkmaids and philosophy. 

 Walton presents a mUkwoman with a fish, who replies : ' God 

 requite you, Sir, and we'U eat it cheerfuUy, and if you come this 

 way a-flshing two months hence, a grace of God, I'll give you a 

 syllabub of new vir juice, in a new made haycock for it.' 



Here are Walton's flies. He says to Venator : 



' You are to note, that there are twelve kind of artificial made flies, 

 to angle with upon the top of the water. Note, by the way, that the fitest 

 season of using these is in a blustering windy day, when the waters are 

 so troubled that the natural fiy cannot be seen, or rest upon them. The 

 first is the dun-fly, in March : the body is made of dun wool ; the wings, 

 of the partridge's feathers. The second is another dun-fly : the body 

 of black wool ; and the wings made of the black drake's feathers, and of 

 the feathers under his tail. The third is the stone-fly, in April : the 

 body is made of black wool ; made yellow tmder the wings and under the 

 tail, and so made with wings of the drake. The fourth is the ruddy-fly, 

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