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depredators. Roses and elder-flowers find em- 

 ployment for the still; although our country 

 ladies do not indulge themselves in the amuse- 

 ments of the still-room with the gusto of their 

 grandmothers ; their cordials of " sovran virtue" 

 are almost forgotten ; the present generation 

 has lost its faith in five-leaved-grass water ; and 

 as for 1'Esprit des Millefleurs, it is better from 

 Delcroix a Paris. Peppermint is ready too for 

 the still; the camomile harvest, in Kent and 

 Derbyshire, employs many children. Heath- 

 berries of various kinds, as bilberries, cranber- 

 ries, etc. and mushrooms are gathered by the 

 poor and carried for sale into the towns. In 

 the garden, fruit-trees may be pruned and wall- 

 trees nailed. Much attention is required in 

 watering, supporting plants, weeding, mowing 

 grass-plots, etc. 



ANGLING. 



Bream and tench spawn. Grayling is " very 

 pleasant and jolly" in these hot months, leaping 

 twenty times at a fly, and showing much sport. 

 His haunts, habits and baits, with the exception 

 that he is not very fond of a minnow, are pretty 

 much like those of the trout ; but he is bolder, 



