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bird-boy, to defend them from hosts of depreda- 

 tors. Roses and elder-flowers find employment 

 for the still ; although our country ladies do not 

 indulge themselves in the amusements of the 

 still-room with the gusto of their grandmothers ; 

 their cordials of " sovrain virtue" are almost 

 forgotten; the present generation has lost its 

 faith in five-leaved-grass water; and as for 

 1' Esprit des Millefleurs, it is better from Del- 

 croix a Paris. Peppermint is ready too for the 

 still ; — the camomile harvest, in Kent and Der- 

 byshire, employs many children. Heath-berries 

 of various kinds, as bilberries, cranberries, etc. 

 and mushrooms are gathered by the poor and 

 carried for sale into the towns. In the garden, 

 fruit-trees may be pruned and wall-trees nailed. 

 Much attention is required in watering, sup- 

 porting plants, weeding, mowing grass-plots, etc. 



ANGLING. 



Bream and tench spawn. Grayling is " very 

 pleasant and jolly" in these hot months, leaping 

 twenty times at a fly, and showing much sport. 

 His haunts, habits, and baits, with the exception 

 that he is not very fond of a minnow, are pretty 

 much like those of the trout ; but he is bolder, 

 and therefore requires less patience in the angler 

 than care not to lose him, through the tender- 

 ness of his mouth. The fly used cannot be too 



