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above all, not sway his body backwards and forwards, 

 which sends up, down, and across a wave which may 

 well give warning to a shy fish of the fisherman's 

 approach. 



Wading on shallows in narrow streams is fatal. 

 Two or three years ago a well-known dry-fly man 

 had a day on this shallow, and not having made himself 

 acquainted with this regulation, or possibly disregard- 

 ing it, stepped boldly into the water and fished it 

 wading. He killed two or three good fish and went 

 away quite pleased with himself For at least a fort- 

 night after that trout were conspicuous by their 

 absence from parts of this shallow, where the keeper 

 and those fishing it had previously spotted them. The 

 keeper declared that he had told this gentleman of 

 the rule prohibiting wading, and the answer was that 

 it was a rotten rule and wading did no harm. The 

 said dry-fly man has not since been invited to try his 

 luck on that stretch of the Test. 



The reader's attention is now directed to the plan in 

 Plate XI. This is on the main Test, and the normal 

 width of the river above the ford is about twenty 

 yards. At the lower side of the ford there is a sharp 

 dip, and the water flows over this at a great pace, the 

 bottom being very hard bright gravel. This fast 

 water deepening suddenly flows down to the point 

 marked A on the bank, where the current divides 

 into two parts, the main run flowing in a curve across 

 the river to the point marked B, and the smaller por- 

 tion turning in what we must call an upstream direction. 



