JANUARY. 21 



repaired ; drains, ditches, etc. kept open ; ma- 

 nure is led out ; and in particular situations, in 

 favourable weather, a little ploughing is done, 

 and common spring-wheat sown. Fruit-trees 

 are pruned and dug round : hop-grounds 

 trenched, and orchards planted. Timber is 

 felled, and stumps and roots cut up to burn. 

 Timber trees are planted, and tree-seeds sown. 



ANGLING. 



Most fresh- water fish are now in season, ex- 

 cepting trout ; but being withdrawn to the 

 deepest places, and the weather being gene- 

 rally intensely cold, the water, for the most 

 part, frozen over, the angler in general lies by 

 for better days. Keen sportsmen, however, 

 will be on the watch at all times, and grayling, 

 now reckoned excellent, are sometimes taken 

 in the middle of a bright day, with a grub, or 

 even with a small fly, two descriptions of which, 

 Cotton says, may be taken, or imitated, the red- 

 brown, and bright-dun. 



