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ant-hills and other inequalities, irrigating, ploughing, 

 and fencing, go on by intervals as the weather per- 

 mits. 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 preparing 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 Derby- 

 shire, the Dove, the Blithe, the Wye, the Trent ; in 

 Yorkshire, some of the tributary streams of the 

 Ribble, the Erne, the Wharf, the Derwent, and its 

 tributary streams, particularly 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, arid 

 many in the Lug in Herefordshire. 



Flies, as in February ; but the enjoyments of the 

 angler, like those of other out-of-doors men, may 

 be said to be over, or to be " few and far between." 

 They may take their post in the warm ingle, recount 

 the exploits of the past year, and prepare their tackle 

 for the next. 



