BY THE RIVER. 75 



difference in the depth. The old gates which open across the 

 water to enable the cattle to get across, still stand well, and 

 hard by in the tall trees are a dozen Rooks' nests. What a 

 commotion is going on, and how different the language uttered 

 to the more generally known "caws"! 



Here we leave the river, to return again later in the season 

 for a cast in that deep hole, where we hope we shall find the 

 Perch "at home." 



