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slippery bank ; it was quite amusing to watch her 

 efforts, which were successful at last. Then a few 

 yards below an unlucky calf tumbled in under an 

 alder bush in a very deep hole. He, too, disappeared, 

 but came up, and struggled hard for some minutes, 

 repeatedly falling back into the deep water. At 

 length he managed to get up on the slippery clay bank, 

 and we thought he was safe, but his forefeet gave way, 

 and somehow he got twisted round, and he again fell 

 head foremost into the water his hind feet still cling- 

 ing in some way to the bank, whilst his head and half 

 his body were under water. We thought he must 

 soon be drowned, and we turned the boat round, and 

 pulled up towards him in the hope of rendering him 

 some kind of help, though he was in an almost 

 unreachable place amongst the thick alder bushes ; 

 fortunately, after a last strong struggle, he sank wholly 

 into the water, and reappeared a little lower down, 

 swimming vigorously to a shallow bank, up which he 

 managed to climb with difficulty but with safety. 

 Such little incidents as these must be of daily occur- 

 rence on the banks of deep rivers, but it was novel and 

 interesting to us to witness, though perhaps scarcely 

 worth recording. 



The Wye is, indeed, a most interesting river in its 

 whole length from its rise in gloomy Plinlimmon to 

 the point where it swells the current of " the Severn 

 Sea." Personally, I am only acquainted with the 

 twenty miles I have just so jauntily floated down. It 

 is a glorious river, passing' through rich lands and ever- 

 changing scenery. But there is no good fly-fishing in 

 it. We tried for trout, but we caught chub, that much- 



