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NOVEMBER. 



irrigating, ploughing, and fencing, go on by 

 intervals, as the weather permits. Timber of 

 all kinds, except those of which the bark is 

 used, is felled. Gates, crates, flakes, etc. are 

 made; and fireside occupations, making and 

 mending baskets, bee-hives, traps for vermin, 

 etc. fill up the long evenings. The business of 

 the garden this month is principally in pre- 

 paring manure, making all clean and neat, and 

 defending plants from coming frosts. 



ANGLING. 



Trout not in season. Grayling excellent. 

 This is rather a rare fish in England. The 

 principal rivers for it are those of Staffordshire 

 and Derbyshire, the Dove, the Blithe, the Wye, 

 the Trent ; in Yorkshire, some of the tributary 

 streams of the Kibble, the Erne, the Wharf, 

 the Derwent, and its tributary streams, parti- 

 cularly the Rye, the Humber. The Avon in 

 Hampshire, and its streams in Wiltshire. The 

 upper part of the Severn and its streams in 

 North Wales ; a few in the Wye and the Dee, 

 and many in the Lug in Herefordshire. 



Flies, as in February ; but the enjoyments 



