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picturesque reaches wind away as far as Wroxham Broad, 

 which is the deepest expanse of fresh water that East Anglia 

 can boast. In the reach below Horning remarkably fine 

 perch are to be obtained, which often scale up to 3 Ibs. or 

 4 Ibs. One bright afternoon we had been sailing in the 

 yacht's dinghy all the morning, but the wind having died 

 away after lunch, it was proposed to drop gently down with 

 the remaining breeze and spin for jack ; one hand being told 

 off to sit clear of everyone with a 12-bore and to keep his 

 weather eye lifted for snipe or duck. We had barely cast 

 the lines before two patriarchal perch (one 3J Ibs. the other 

 2J Ibs.) were jumping and slapping about in the bottom of the 

 boat. A third fish would have been added but for the breeze 

 that momentarily freshened, and the boat, drawing rapidly 

 ahead, enabled him to break away from the hook, and the 

 annoyance was added to by seeing his great red tail and fins 

 gradually disappearing in the depths from which he came. 



When we got back to the wherry a damsel of some 

 eighteen summers was creating a diversion by swarming up 

 the mast of a small yacht moored to the bank, and her grace- 

 ful evolutions were quickly transferred to the sketch-book, 

 but perhaps it is advisable not to reproduce that effort in 

 these pages. 



With respect to shooting from a boat where the space is 

 so limited, and the operator may be subject to sudden and in- 

 voluntary movement, the greatest caution in handling and 

 laying down a gun should be observed. In fact, it will not 

 be going too far to declare that anyone in whom principles of 

 caution are absent should not be allowed, under any circum- 

 stances, to touch a gun in a boat. Many are the distressing 

 accidents which have occurred in Broadland. To record one 

 will be sufficient for present purposes. A young fellow was 

 shot in the prime of life owing to his brother having placed 

 the gun down so carelessly that the accidental contact of a 

 fishing line with the trigger lodged the whole charge in the 

 unfortunate victim's stomach. 



Upon looking at the map it will be seen that the river 



