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some four or five miles distance from town, 

 seventeen miles. 



Near Croydon is a famous fishing place, but 

 so preserved and clubbed, that you cannot get a 

 line thrown on its streams, unless you are intro- 

 duced by a member. I have, some years ago, 

 got some good trout ; but, I am afraid, it may 

 be said as it has been said of the Fifeshire 

 rivers, ' the dulcia of the angler having vanished 

 before the utilia of the community.' Paper and 

 printing-mills are doing their work here also. 



(LEATHERHEAD). 



It is an age, I may safely say, since I cast a 

 fly on the waters of Mr Hankey of Fitcham- 

 park. The country all around this place is 

 beautiful in May and June. I remember, it 

 was the early hay-making, and, although it was 

 a good day, I did little ; and the gentlemen 



