OCTOBER IN BROADLAND. 107 



The breeze has upset Jim's arrangements for the day had the weather been 

 different he would have been out roach-fishing, with a gentleman who is keen upon 

 the pastime as it is, this angler, he informs us, had gone to the ' Fenman's Shel- 

 ter,' and Jim, as we saw him, had made the best of matters by ' airin' old Peggy,' 

 his favourite fowling-piece, ' an' shutin' for what he couldn't arn ' his dinner. 



THE WRITER IN HIS PUNT. 



Dropping in at the ' Fenman's Shelter,' we find the aforesaid roach-angler 

 a plump, well-nourished, fussy gentleman, who seems alternately amusing himself 

 with sipping a mug of ale and munching biscuits, reading a week-old ( Telegraph,' 

 and peering in a fidgety sort of way out of the window at the weather. We are 

 soon on a friendly footing, and the little man waxes exceeding chatty. 



