184 A BUNGLE AND A DILEMMA 



Many trees and shrubs which are not mentioned 

 above will occur to the reader as important features in 

 the pageant of autumn. Those I have mentioned are 

 but such as have claimed attention in the course of a 

 woodland ramble. There are, besides, a number of 

 herbs which contribute not a little to the garniture of 

 the season. To mention but two or three the great 

 spoon-shaped leaves of Funckia Sieboldi die off in 

 brilliant yellow, while the long grass-like foliage of 

 Montbretia and the flag-like leaves of Antholyza turn 

 to orange and russet. Then Saxifraga peltata, so 

 curiously unlike the rest of its enormous genus, will 

 light up any wettish ground with great discs of crimson 

 and orange. All these plants are too gross and spread 

 too fast in the borders ; the right place for them is the 

 wood-margin and the waterside. 



XLVI 



' La peche est un plaisir roturier,' quoth Porthos ; 

 A Bun le ' J e ^ e ^ a ^ sse ^ Mousqueton ' ; nor is it difficult 

 and a to conceive that one of Dumas' immortal 



Musketeers should disdain a craft wherein 

 success depends primarily on the mood and volition of 

 the object of pursuit. For that is the feature that 

 distinguishes angling from every other branch of field- 

 sport. You may stalk a royal hart successfully without 

 regard to the state of his appetite ; grouse and pheasants 

 may be driven headlong over the guns without con- 

 sulting their inclination or idiosyncrasies ; no measures 

 need be taken to beguile the fox before hunting him ; 

 but it rests with the salmon or the trout to decide 



