LETTER XXXII 



Sun on River Fish Bleak Fishes Swimming contrasted with 

 Birds Flying Jacks' Fins Steering by Fins Swans : 

 Kissing, Love-making, Nest-building Owls in Pigeon-house 

 Mr. Fisher Hunting Squires at Henley Old Picture. 



\"$th May 1892. 



DEAR MARCO Though the chill north 

 wind continues to blow, the sun has shone 

 every day during the last week. The land 

 is suffering dreadfully for want of rain ; trees, 

 shrubs, grass, etc., making hardly any pro- 

 gress ; but the temperature of the water in the 

 river has greatly increased under the pro- 

 longed sunshine, and swarms of little fish of 

 all sorts abound. 



Now little fish on tender stone 



Begin to cast their bellies, 



And sluggish snails, that erst were mewed, 



Do creep out of their shellies ; 



