CHAPTER IX 



MAY FLY FISHING IN HEREFORDSHIRE 

 IN 1905 



" After her came jolly June, arrayed 

 All in green leaves, as he a player were ; 



Yet in his time he wrought as well as played, 

 That by his plough-irons mote right well appear." 



SPENSER. 



THE RIVER ARROW 



June ^th, 1905. 



AM now sitting in an old inn par- 

 lour, in one of the prettiest, old- 

 fashioned villages to be seen any- 

 where. The view from the bridge, 

 looking which way you will, up-stream or down- 

 stream, is very attractive; it is pleasant to lean 

 over the balustrades to watch the trout rising 

 on a June evening. The bridge is just as it was 

 when I first knew it seventy years ago. The 

 broad expanse of water above and below, mar- 

 gined by trees now in their brightest foliage, 

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