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clivities, had been produced. Now, for your 

 sport. What has been your success ? 



AMICTJS. A few smelts, and a few brandlings, 

 and some small trout. I have measured a few 

 of the former; the largest of the smelts is about 

 seven inches in length, the smallest of the 

 brandlings not exceeding three and a half ; and 

 many I saw in the beautifully clear water higher 

 up the stream even smaller, seeming to denote 

 that there are, at the present time, fry in the 

 river of different ages. 



PISCATOK. From the examination of those 

 I have taken, I have come to much the same 

 conclusion. I will show you the way to our 

 farmhouse inn, and pray be observant as you 

 go. We are told, and we have it on good 

 authority that, when the last clergyman but 

 one came to reside at Seathwaite, "the place 

 was as if it had never before been inhabited. 

 There were no roads, no woods, no meadows, 

 no neighbours." That clergyman was Eobert 

 Walker the Wonderful Eobert Walker, the 

 epithet applied to him by his neighbours who 

 knew him best. You will see the change that 

 has occurred, and mainly owing to Eobert 

 Walker. 



