CHAPTER VI 



In Taddington Dale 



The River Wye — the Derbyshire Wye — is 

 one that grows upon the angler and the 

 lover of nature. The more he sees of it 

 the more he warms towards it. It is the 

 most devious of streams, threading its way 

 from Bakewell, and far above, to Haddon, 

 Filiford, and Rowsley, where it mingles with 

 the peat-brown waters of the Derwent — 

 threading its fastidious way through rugged 

 valley and through meadow-land in a long 

 succession of curves and sharp turns. These 

 curves make many deep and sluggish back- 

 waters, into which the surface food is driven 

 and in which confined till it finds its way 

 down the mouths of the lusty trout that affect 

 such spots. It is pleasant to sit down on the 



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