PERCH AND PIKE FISHING. 



: Our plenteous streams a various race supply, 

 The bright-eyed perch, with fins of deepest dye.' 



w 



E had 

 had a 



fortnight of 

 very dry, 

 warm weather, 

 more like that 

 of an Indian 

 summer than 



the weather we are accustomed to in 

 July. The ground was parched and hot under 

 foot. In many places the earth was cracked, 

 gaping for the rain which did not come. The 

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PIKE. 



we 



