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stayed there have grown sometimes to a consider- 

 able size. Three- and even five-pounders have been 

 scaled during the spawning season. The Cray is a 

 narrow stream, clear in some parts and rather thick 

 in others, and its pace is moderate. Mr. Joynson 

 thinks that the anglers who once fished it used 

 gentles and other baits of the kind. But a friend 

 tells me that in days long past he has had sport 

 with the artificial fly. The Cray scarcely deserves 

 the name of chalk stream in the way that the Test 

 and Itchen do, though it flows through a country 

 the subsoil of which is here and there composed of 

 chalk as well as of loam, or heavy loam, or gravel. 



