ii4 WA TERSIDE SKETCHES. 



river of a Leviathan following a hooked juvenile to the bank, 

 and by a direct blow delivering him from the spoiler. This 

 might have been an accident, but the movements of the 

 chivalrous cheven rendered it impossible to doubt that it 

 was an accident purposely committed. There are some 

 chub in the Lea, and the Lea men are fond of taking 

 them with a blow line, and live grasshoppers or " daddy- 

 long-legs." The Trent, Ouse, Thames, and indeed all 

 our large rivers, contain chub. By a riverside it is 

 necessary to keep your shadow from the water. The 

 chub requires as much stalking as a Highland deer. 

 Nothing is lost by kneeling down on the grass above or 

 below a chub hole or shallow where you know chub are 

 swimming, and waiting five minutes in solemn stillness until 

 you begin operations, and if you can contrive to pitch your 

 artificial bee, palmer, or moth upon the brink's herbage and 

 let it drop quite casually into the river so much the better. 



