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ME. CORBETTS HAREIERS. 



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next rank there were twelve, varying from 151b. to over -Jolb; V)ohind these 

 were tAventy more, varying from lUU). to lollj. ; and in the rear rank wn-c, the 

 grilse, numbering thirty-five ; the movement of the tail fin only was sufKciont 

 to keep the fish np to the stream. I had watched them when lying down, 

 raising my head only above a high Ijauk, and next sent the gillie to tln-ow a 

 small stone into the water behind the gi-ilse, thus causing the whole of the 

 salmon to move into the deeper water at the top of the pool. After 

 waiting for an hour I saw them begin to return, each fi.sli forming into line* 

 and they thus took np their original formation in four distinct ranks. Wlicn 



WARWICKSHIRE ENTRY, 1874. 

 Mr. H. Spencer Lucy. 



* Two good-lookiag 1)1101168. Columbine was very good in her work, 

 t By Brocklesby Hannibal — Ledbury Vocal. Bought by Mr. Lucy as a two-year- 

 old in 1871. 



fishing in the same pool at higher water, when the salmon were still to be seen 

 I noticed that when the fly passed over them, they rose exactly in the same 

 way, turning on their sides, as the fly passed over them. 



SEASON 1874-75. 

 Mr. Greorge Smith's diary: 



October 24th. — Mr. Corbett's harriers ran a wild stag to near Fir Grove, 

 Caught him, and kept him shut up a week. 



