EFFECT OF CHANGE OF WATER. 



CHAP. XI. 



' Tis night, dread night, and weary Nature lies 

 So fast as if she never were to rise ; 

 Lean wolves forget to howl at night's pale noon ; 

 No wakeful dogs bark at the silent moon, 

 Nor bay the ghosts which glide in horror by 

 To view the caverns where their bodies lie ; 

 The ravens perch, and no presages give, 

 Nor to the windows of the dying cleave ; 

 In vaults the walking fires extinguish'd lie ; 

 The stars, heaven's sentry, wink and seem to die.' 



Before I describe what is called "burning the water," 

 I will make an observation that may be of service to 

 the rod fisher. It is, that salmon which have been dis- 

 turbed in the night with boats and lights will draw 

 into the streams above, and take the fly all the better 

 for this disturbance the following morning; and as 

 burning always takes place when the water is very low, 

 they probably will not be found far from the place of 

 the nocturnal operations. 



Trout also will take better for having been routed 

 about, and for change of situation ; a remarkable in- 

 stance of which I witnessed a few years ago at Castle 

 Combe. A hole under some hatches by a mill was 

 emptied of its water, that the trout might be caught 

 and taken lower down the stream, more out of the way 

 of poachers. This was done by means of buckets, and 

 in doinir it the water became thick and white, and the 



