174 ON SURREY HILLS. 



and then with a vicious dart he shot into the 

 stream, breaking the rotten gimp like a thread. 

 Later on he was captured ; his weight was five 

 pounds. When the time for migrating came round, 

 I have known enormous eels caught in that pure 

 bright stream, which I grieve to say exists in the 

 same happy condition no longer. 



