98 WHERE TO FISH. 



WHERE TO FISH. 



EARLY SPRING THE AXE VALLEY SHUTE ESTATE 



WATER DOVEDALE SMALL HOLDINGS SPORT 



AND SIMPLE LIFE. 



"Tis a month before the month of May 

 And Spring comes slowly up this way. 



How soft the music of those village bells 



Falling at intervals upon the ear 



In cadence sweet . . . 



. . . whenever I have heard 



A kindred melody the scene recurs, 



And with it all its pleasures. 



COWPER. 



I WAS always rather taken with the account 

 of a City man who never made a plan of 

 where he was going for his holiday, until 

 he had packed his portmanteau and was ready 

 to hail a cab. He would then suddenly settle 

 which terminus to drive to; and be guided by 

 his fancy or caprice, either on seeing a train 

 ready to start, or after looking down a time 

 table, in the matter of taking a ticket for a 

 station over a hundred miles away. 



His pleasure also was to make just the same 

 haphazard choice of an inn, leaving his luggage 

 at the station, and strolling about until he saw 

 what he thought would suit him. He might 

 stop a night, or spend a fortnight; and usually 



