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tunity to get stone, mend their roads, gates, etc. and 

 thatch their ricks. The corn-crops require constant 

 watching by the birdboy, to defend them from hosts 

 of depredators. Roses and elder-flowers find em- 

 ployment for the still ; although our country ladies 

 do not indulge themselves in the amusements of the 

 still-room, with the gusto of their grandmothers ; 

 their cordials of " sovrain virtue" are almost for- 

 gotten ; 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. Pep- 

 permint is ready, too, for the still ; the camomile 

 harvest, in Kent and Derbyshire, employs many 

 children. Heath-berries of various kinds, as bilber- 

 ries, cranberries, 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, and there- 

 fore requires less patience in the angler than care 

 not to lose him, through the tenderness of his mouth. 



