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rod and an assortment of fly-books and 

 angling tackle sufficient to catch and carry- 

 away half the fish in the stream. From 

 Bakewell to Taddington Dale is a delightful 

 drive on a fine spring morning. The river 

 is scarcely ever out of both sight and sound, 

 and between Ashford — a pleasantly situated 

 little place — and Taddington village there is 

 some rugged mountain scenery, to see the 

 equal of which English people would think 

 nothing of travelling to Switzerland, or of 

 crossing the North Sea to the Land of the 

 Midnight Sun. In Taddington Dale the 

 scenery of this part of Derbyshire is perhaps 

 at its finest. Even in the early and not too 

 leafy days of May it is beautiful. Think, 

 then, what these delicious dales must be like 

 in the gorgeous midsummer, or later in the 

 year when autumn lays 'a fiery finger on 

 the leaf and rides through these lonely 

 places of the earth with the west wind as 

 her chariot ! 



We drove slowly by the river-side in 

 Taddington Dale, my companion pointing 



