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as the gallants ride on in decent disorder. 

 A hart of ten points leads them away 

 hark ! surely St. Simon sounds the halali. 



4. There below our temporary Olympus 

 stands a quaint old mill, red roofed, with 

 its trees and pleasant gardens, rough, per- 

 chance, "with wild thyme and the gadding 

 vine o'ergrown," and a staid, sober figure 

 white -laced and "plain in its neatness" 

 walks nimbly over the shaven green to 

 where a gliding brook is shaded by droop- 

 ing branches. The figure of the gentle 

 master bends, a rough fly falls lightly on 

 the bubbling surface, the rod is curved, 

 and a bonnie golden trout leaps in the 

 morning sun. 



5. Again it is the time of day in which 

 Aurora rises to greet the opening life. We 

 see four men carrying heavy guns, and 

 clumsy so they appear to us, but sportive 

 weapons at that time were rare and 



