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consequence of Egham races, was partly covered with 

 tents, as if another army had encamped there: and 

 we heard, with something like surprise and incredu- 

 lity, from a countryman who was going to his work, 

 that one of the stewards was a namesake of a distin- 

 guished character in John's reign Hubert de Burgh. 

 A vision of Queen Constance, and young Arthur, and 

 Falconbridge, and Cardinal Pamphilo, with the rest of 

 the principal characters of Shakspeare's play, came 

 across our mind; and we were only aroused from our 

 reverie on beholding the flag flying from the round 

 tower of Windsor Castle, which, lighted "by the morn- 

 ing sun, rose proudly above the old oaks in the Park. 

 Not only an angler, from a day-dream, "but 



" St. George might waken from the dead, 

 To see gay England's banner fly!" 



About half a mile below Eton there is good 

 fishing for barbel, in the eddies close by the bank, 

 and there also trouts are sometime a caught, from 

 two to three pounds weight, but not so frequently as 

 induce an angler to try expressly for them. An old 

 angler, who fishes there regularly, caught four this 

 last season, which had taken his worm when fishing 

 for barbel. 



Considering the opportunities afforded for angling 

 in the Thames, and the worthy example set by a 

 former provost of Eton College, Sir Henry Wotton, it 

 is not surprising that the Eton boys should be lovers 

 of the pleasing art. A good example once set, in a 



