GRAYLING. 181 



POIET. I have basketed (to coin a word) 

 three trout and six graylings. 



PHYS. And I have taken seven gray- 

 lings. I caught trout likewise, but not con- 

 sidering them in proper season, I returned 

 them to the river: but Ornither has been 

 the most successful he has killed ten gray- 

 lings. 



HAL. The trout is rarely good in this 

 river at least I never saw one that cut red, 

 and yet I have taken them in July, when 

 their external appearance was perfect and 

 beautiful; but they have, to my taste, always 

 a flabby and soft character of flesh, and at 

 all seasons here are inferior for the table to 

 grayling; yet they often attain a consider- 

 able size. There are few small fish in these 

 streams, and I suppose the grayling, which 

 are most numerous, deprive the trout of 

 their proper share of the food, depending 

 upon larvae and flies. 



PHYS. As we are walking through these 

 meadows, pray give us some information as 

 to the habits of the grayling, and his locali- 

 ties in England : I have been so much 



