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the long evenings. The business of the garden 

 this month is principally in preparing manure, 

 making all clean and neat, and defending plants 

 from coming frosts. 



ANGLING. 



Trout not in season. Grayling excellent. 

 This is rather a rare fish in England. The 

 principal rivers for it are those of Staffordshire 

 and Derbyshire, the Dove, the Blithe, the Wye, 

 the Trent; in Yorkshire, some of the tributary 

 streams of the Ribble, the Erne, the Wharf, the 

 Derwent, and its tributary streams, particularly 

 the Rye, the H umber; the Avon in Hamp- 

 shire, and its streams in Wiltshire ; the upper 

 part of the Severn and its streams in North 

 Wales ; a few in the Wye and the Dee, and 

 many in the Lug in Herefordshire. 



Flies, as in February; but the enjoyments 

 of the angler, like those of other out-of-doors 

 men, may be said to be over, or to be " few and 

 far between." They may take their post in the 

 warm ingle, recount the exploits of the past 

 year, and prepare their tackle for the next. 



