140 FISHING RIVERS. 



In coaching days I have also gone to the 

 Uske, in Monmouthshire ; and when I had per- 

 severed for two days at the salmon, I was told, 

 on my return, i to take mine ease in mine inn,' 

 for the very day previous to my coming, all 

 the pools had been swept out by the nets this 

 was the beginning of September. 



jfarninjiljam 



ON THE PARENT (KENT). 



I went to this a few years ago, with a friend, 

 who insisted to take my double-handed rod. 

 We went, but he never put it up ; I, however, 

 persevered, and got four trout, which the people 

 at the inn said was quite a take; and unless, 

 you fish in the preserved waters of Sir Thomas 

 Dyke, Bart., you seldom did more. They 

 were the prettiest trout I have ever seen ; so 

 small in the head and so beautifully 'be-dropped 

 wi' crimson hail.' You soon get to this place 

 by the rail from London Bridge, then per coach 



