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THE COLNE. 



The Colne falls into the Thames, runs through 

 Staines, Staines Moor, Stanwell Moor, branches off 

 through Iver, Delaford Parkland Huntsmoor, Cowley, 

 and TJxbridge Moors; through Uxbridge, in two 

 streams, to Denham, and Denham Court the former 

 preserved by a Mr. Hamlet, the latter by Col. Wey ; 

 Harefield Moor, Speding's Copper Mills, Springwell, 

 up to Mill End, preserved by Speddings, Rickmans- 

 worth, Rickmansworth Moor, by Dickenson's paper 

 mill, to Cashiobury Park, the seat of the Earl of 

 Essex. 



TO-DAY'S ONE DAY, TO-MORROW'S 

 ANOTHER. 



Twelve o'Clock is not a bit too soon to start if you are going 

 14 or 16 miles, and would be there by day-light ; at this time 

 three thorough bobbers met at Hyde Park Corner, journeying 

 towards Watford ; Wilks, Jinks, and Spynks. Wilks had a dog, 

 not a sporting dog, but one that he fancied, and he was really a 

 rum one, for a rat. This dog, like his master, was as lively as a 

 bird, when on a fishing journey, and usually run over seven times 

 as much ground as necessary ; this dog, in one of his round-about 

 rambles, ran a thorn in his foot, then came yelping to his master, 

 but neither he nor his companions could extricate it, being then 

 dark. < Never mind it, Carlo/ said Wilks, ' Mr. Jinks will hold 

 your four legs, while Mr. Spynks opens my basket at my back, 

 and I'll carry you, poor fellow : ' accordingly Carlo was put back 

 downwards, in Wilks's basket. I like your calling n cur like 

 that, by a fine sporting name/ said Jinks ; what do you mean by 



