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fishery. Of course this right must be exercised 

 with discretion, and in such manner as not to 

 damage the freeholder or his tenants or others 

 owning or leasing land on the banks of the 

 stream. It is often good policy for the fishing 

 tenant to let his keepers carry out any small 

 amount of work required to repair a small 

 breach or weak place in the banks. For such 

 purpose a few old hurdles are serviceable, 

 and most agents are grateful to a tenant if he 

 points these matters out, and will generally 

 place at his disposal for this purpose some 

 of the old hurdles lying about the estate. 

 Over a swampy place or a shaky sedge bed a 

 line of hurdles two or three deep are laid and 

 pegged in place and a few sods of turf or mud 

 dragged from the river laid on them. As they 

 sink fresh turf or mud, if necessary, is piled up 

 until in a few seasons a firm path is made 

 along the bank in places where previously the 

 water could not be approached. 



The lessee's right to remove mud or shoal or Removal of 

 do other work he may consider of advantage to 

 the fishery is an important one, and, as before 

 remarked, must be used with discretion. In 

 deep, slow-running reaches mud will always be 

 deposited in a greater or less quantity ; in 

 some parts close to the banks, and in others 

 in mid-stream, and wherever this occurs the 



mud. 



