CLEAR WATERS 



some talent, and could have given our opponents great 

 odds on an average English village green. But so 

 utterly were we cowed by the rugged irregularities of 

 the pitch that we were generally beaten. It was only 

 an afternoon match, but all four innings, when such 

 were necessary, were easily completed long before the 

 limit hour, so frequently did a wide to the off take your 

 leg stump or the reverse. 



The Dysynni was a very interesting and a very 

 beautiful river. It was tolerably good for one that 

 comes within the scope of a light-hearted domestic 

 holiday. The ladies thought us rather brutal, and 

 with some justice, as we were always praying for rain. 

 In our heart of hearts we couldn't have enough of it, 

 though we didn't perhaps say so. For the rain took 

 the sewin and some salmon up, and though there was 

 a great deal of netting at the mouth, a fair number 

 escaped. One great merit of the Dysynni lay in the 

 fact that from Peniarth, some four miles up, where the 

 rapid water ceased, the river ran deep and slow, and 

 was slightly affected for some distance by the tide. 

 Above Peniarth it was swift and broken with all the 

 characteristics of a mountain stream ; so that after rain, 

 when the water was in condition, we could fish the 

 upper part to advantage, and when that ran low and 

 clear we could apply ourselves so long as there was a 

 breeze to the deep, sluggish reaches below. The 

 sewin and trout lay and rose, when they felt disposed 

 to rise, in both. But the brown trout in the upper 

 water were usually of the smaller breed, those in the 

 lower waters were mostly pounders or thereabouts. 

 This was, of course, ages before the days of motors. It 

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