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where grayling predominate, the trout as surely decrease. 

 The river next flows past the villages of Grassirigton and 

 Burnsall ; at the latter place another angling association 

 has been formed, which preserves a fine stretch of water. 

 Here grayling abound, and attain a good size, so that the 

 flyfisher has variety in his sport, though his pannier at the 

 close of the day may not contain so many trout as it perhaps 

 might do on the Kilnsey length. The day tickets on the 

 Burnsall water are issued by the landlord of the "Red 

 Lion " Inn, at a charge of 5s. per day ; the secretary of 

 the club, Mr. C. J. Critchley, of Ilkley, will readily supply 

 any further information respecting the rules, etc. We 

 next approach what is justly considered the most beautiful 

 portion of Wharf edale, viz., Bard en Tower, Bolton Woods, 

 and the far-famed ruins of Bolton Abbey. One of the many 

 delights that are known to the flyfisher is the beautiful 

 English scenery that his favourite sport leads him to, and 

 here indeed he will find it in all its varying forms, for I can 

 say, without any fear of contradiction, that there are few 

 beauty spots in England that can rival Bolton Woods 

 viewed in early spring, when the tender green buds are 

 bursting into life, and its many dells and coppices are 

 resonant with the twittering of feathered songsters, when 

 the mossy banks are stellated with clusters of primroses, 

 wood anemones, and violets, and when the river, swollen 

 by recent rains, thunders over the moss-clad rocks, the 

 whole force of its current rushing through a narrow passage 

 about four feet in width, where in days gone by, tradition 

 states that young Eomilly, the " Boy of Egremond," met 

 with an untimely death whilst attempting to leap the 

 chasm with a leash of hounds. 



" He sprang in glee, for what cared he 

 That the river was strong, and the rocks were steep ? 

 But the greyhounds in the leash hung back, 

 And checked him in his leap. 



