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purchased of keepers on the estates : they must be 

 good killers^ or else they would not be persevered with ; 

 but personally we have had more success with floating 

 flies. 



We have visited the district in various seasons of the 

 year, and delight in it, as no doubt do our American 

 cousins, who never miss putting in a day at the '' Pea- 

 cock " or the " Edensor," so as to do Haddon Hall and 

 Chatsworth House, in order to complete their education 

 as regards the Midlands. They do the lot in a morning 

 — see, and can say they have seen; but they know 

 nothing of the beautiful country. 



To wander along the Wye in June is like viewing a 

 rose-garden through a magnifying-glass, the hawthorn- 

 blossom creating a fairy scene which could hardly be 

 excelled by Titania herself, so daintily do the pink 

 bouquets contrast with the white. 



It seems strange, and yet we are asked to believe by 

 certain agitators that the House should be abolished 

 which claims among its members men who lay open 

 such lands as these for the benefit of us all ! 



We had set ofi" to this country without advice, so were 

 all the more pleased to find, during our evening stroll, 

 that the water was in order and the drake already out, 

 although the trout, as is always the case during the first 

 few days of the rise, were not duly recognizing them as 

 an article of food. So the swallows were making hay 

 while the sun shone. 



What a delicacy must be the green drake, with his 



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