NOTE 



N bringing these holiday sketches 

 together, I have added here and 

 there much new matter. This has 

 been more particularly the case in 

 the chapters on the Dove and the Lea. With 

 that portion of the Dove which extends from 

 the head of Beresford Dale to Okeover Bridge, 

 and with that short portion of the Manifold 

 from its emergence at Ham Hall, after its 

 long subterranean passage, to its junction with 

 the Dove, about a mile or so below, I may 

 claim a fairly intimate acquaintance, chiefly 

 as regards their angling capacities. I owe my 

 initiation to the brotherhood of anglers to a 

 visit of three weeks to Dove Dale, eighteen 

 years ago. My personal impressions of that 

 pleasant summer time were recorded in a small 



