A May Day's Angling 97 



sionally put together. Yet there was not 

 much cause for disappointment, though a 

 brace more would certainly have been ac- 

 ceptable. The walk to the station in the 

 cool of the evening, when, for some reason 

 or other, there is rarely a rise on this stream, 

 was full of delight. The weird, but far 

 from unpleasant, 'churn' of the goat-sucker 

 was a sound to stop now and again to listen 

 to ; the nightingale rang out his passionate- 

 seeming notes, ' liquid-sweet,' from all the 

 coppices ; and the air was redolent with the 

 scent of many blossoms. 



