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in a discussion of this kind from snow, 

 so that to some extent the reader will do 

 well, as regards the rest of the evidence 

 in this chapter, to read it, by cross- 

 reference, in conjunction with much of 

 that given in the next. At the same 

 time, hail is so common an accompani- 

 ment of sport at a season when we have 

 no snow, that this is thought the most 

 satisfactory division. 



Lord Wolverton and some others re- Hail no bar 

 gard hail showers with indifference as to sport> 

 neither good nor bad for fishing. Mr. 

 Sheringham offers the interesting sug- 

 gestion, as the result of observation, that 

 hail is no bar to sport so long as the 

 temperature of the water remains higher 

 than that of the air. Such, at any rate, 

 was the case when, in April 1905, he 

 caught a 2 Ib. trout a good fish for the 

 water, during a sharp hailstorm. 



The patter of hailstones on the surface Alleged habit 



P , , ofmahseer. 



or the water seems to have a strange 

 fascination for the mahseer. General 

 Morton, Colonel Bairnsfather and other 



