96 WITH THE WOODLANDERS. 



your fly, hook and land your fish, without moving 

 from the road ; but notice - boards, which in this 

 instance are placed here by those who have a 

 perfect right to forbid trespassers, in very plain 

 terms forbid your doing anything of the kind. 

 There is, however, no need for notice - boards in 

 the parts where the stream runs through alder- 

 bogs; there will be no fear of your trespassing 

 long on these. And yet, in spite of danger, the 

 bogs, the swamps, and the reed - beds, and the 

 huge clumps of tussock -grass that rise out of the 

 water like so many small islands, as well as a 

 wealth of beautiful but treacherous greenery, have 

 been explored in past times by that class of men 

 who, if they wanted a wild creature of some par- 

 ticular kind, had it. 



Very few notice-boards were to be seen at that 

 time; they were only, in fact, at the entrance to 

 covers. Sign-posts even were scarce. One lonely 

 road I know, which is situated at the foot of 

 the hills, used to have a very bad name, and not 

 without reason. It is now lighted up with oil- 

 lamps having strong reflectors. Things are cer- 

 tainly progressing in all directions. " The quakes" 



