stiles, &c. 



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sobriety be without reproach. If the head 

 keeper is a thoroughly good one he will soon 

 find out whether the local under keeper will suit. 

 It is always well to take on either of the keepers 

 temporarily for some few months before letting 

 him consider it a permanent situation. Wages 

 on a moderately liberal scale should be paid, 

 and if men give satisfaction it is, as a rule, better 

 policy to raise their wages at the end of the first 

 year or so rather than wait for them to ask for 

 the increase. 



One of the earliest steps necessary is for the Planks and 

 superintendent of the fishery to devote some 

 time to a careful survey of the water in company 

 with the newly appointed head keeper. Such 

 time will certainly not be wasted, as it will not 

 only serve to make both master and man 

 thoroughly acquainted with every turn and twist 

 of the river, but at the same time give the master 

 many opportunities of gauging the capacity and 

 intelligence of the keeper. Such preliminary 

 survey can well be utilised in seeing that both 

 banks throughout the water are approachable, 

 and that whether for the purpose of weed- 

 cutting, netting, wiring, trimmering, and last, but 

 certainly not least, for the fishing itself, it is 

 possible to get moderately near the margin of 

 the river. 



In a chalk stream bounded by water-meadows 



