to catch them." Not wishing to deprive a whole 

 parish of amusement for the season, we replaced on 

 our hat the triplet of flies, which would have tempted 

 any trout to take them, and die with pleasure, whose 

 hours of rest and of feeding had for a fortnight been 

 interrupted by frightful visions of winged and fea- 

 thered things, neither insect nor bird, with now and 

 then a devil proper, thrown at him from something 

 like a hop-pole. 



The stream having increased considerably in its 

 course from Croydon, passes the village of Bedding- 

 ton, and runs through Beddington Park, where the 

 water is preserved, and contains plenty of trout, 

 which, escaping from time to time, afford an excel- 

 lent supply to the subscription water of Mr. Brown, 

 at Wallington, a short distance lower down. The 

 number of subscribers to this water is limited to 

 fifteen, at three guineas each, from the 1st of May to 

 the 1st of September. At. Carshalton it is increas- 

 ed by several streams, which rise from a chalky 

 soil near that village; and from thence to where it 

 runs into the Thames, a little below Wandsworbh, 

 it is called the Wandle. " The Wandall Trout," says 

 W. Folkingham, Gent, in his Art of Survey, 1630, "is 

 held in high esteeme ;" and we, in 1834, with the taste 

 of one of them yet on our palate, declare that they 

 deserve to be so still. One of the principal springs 

 which form the Wandle, rises in the grounds of Mr. 

 Reynolds at Carshalton. The spring-head is arched 

 over; but at the head of the pond into which it runs, 



