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alters more in its course than the Teme : banks are 

 washed away, pools formed into runs, and deeps into 

 shallows. The famous places of my time, may, in 

 all probability, be things of the past. Old friends 

 and fishermen may recall to their memory the run 

 above the old milking bridge, the upper part 

 o'ershadowed on both sides by alders. Ah, what 

 lovely fellows have I inveigled from under 

 their roots ! Then the ford below the Rat 

 Ditch ; General Drummond's Pool ; the Artist's 

 Bathing-place, famous for trout ; Hamilton's Bath ; 

 the Run above the New Weir ; Temptation 

 Pool ; the Black Bridge, and a host of others, 

 where any number of 



" Grayling I could kill, 

 If gloomy was the day." 



Beginning just below Leintwardine Bridge, 

 throwing under the opposite bank, certain of a 

 good fish or two, and many a rise besides, and then 

 working on to the stream above the milking 

 bridge, wading down between the alders and 

 throwing well under them ; and then at the tail 

 of General Drummond's Pool, sure of sport ; and 

 so on to the Weir ; the pool below was formerly 

 Always good for a fine fish or two ; I have taken 

 them out over two pounds, but it altered of late 

 years, and no fish would rise ; but there was a 



