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demanded catch many pike and grow to age your- 

 self before you even learnt one's whereabouts. 



We will not then waste the day here after a 

 trout but will make for the eddy on our right. 

 Here I have had many good takes of barbel, so 

 we must not leave it unnoticed. They may be 

 on and detain us for hours. I should like you, 

 too, before leaving, to try with a paternoster all 

 round its sides for the perch which head up here 

 for minnows in the early season. 



You may with profit spend a day in this snug 

 corner, with your eyes now and then diverted 

 from your rod to the pictures around you. Nature 

 has not done all that she is capable of but it is a 

 pretty scene and you will not gaze upon it for 

 long without a feeling stealing over you of " it's 

 all my own." The busy world comes not here, 

 though close at hand ; you have only to raise your 

 eyes some six feet above the level of your head 

 to see boat after boat, with their gaily-dressed 

 occupants, pass noiselessly by the falling waters 

 drown every sound and, as they enter or emerge 

 from the cut, they have more the appearance of 

 puppets in some grand show than that which we 

 know them to be. 



We will also try the boughs on the left about 

 twenty yards below. 



Cast out a ledger with a small round bullet and 

 let it roll under the first bough ; then throw in a 

 small ball of clay with a few worms cut in halves. 



