2. The March-brown.

3. The governor.

4. The black alder.

And two or three large palmers, red, grizzled, and coch-a-bonddhu,
each with a tuft of red floss silk at the tail. These are enough to
show sport from March to October; and also like enough to certain
natural flies to satisfy the somewhat dull memory of a trout.

But beyond this list there is little use in roaming, as far as my
experience goes. A yellow dun kills sometimes marvellously on chalk-
streams, and always upon rocky ones. A Turkey-brown ephemera, the
wing made of the bright brown tail of the cock partridge, will, even
just after the May-fly is off, show good sport in the forenoon, when
he is on the water; and so will in the evening the claret spinner, to
which he turns. Excellent patterns of these flies may be found in
Ronalds: but, after all, they are uncertain flies; and, as Harry
Verney used to say, 'they casualty flies be all havers;' which
sentence the reader, if he understands good Wessex, can doubtless
translate for himself.

And there are evenings on which the fish take greedily small
transparent ephemerae. But, did you ever see large fish rise at
these ephemerae? And even if you did, can you imitate the natural
fly? And after all, would it not be waste of time? For the
experience of many good fishers is, that trout rise at these delicate
duns, black gnats, and other microscopic trash, simply faute de