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the common mallard often breeds The trout in the lake are 
reputed to have a peculiar and unpleasant taste, owing, they 
say, to the prevalence of some weed. When, however, they are 
placed in the spring at the head of the lake for a fortnight they 
become palatable and good. Not meeting with sport in the 
open water we tried our luck in the stream which runs parallel 
to, and about twenty yards from the bank. Here also the fish 
were on the sulk. We caught but one, and that of good size. 
It was, however, dark coloured and out of condition. On looking 
for the cause we discovered a wound nearly healed in the back, 
where the fish had been stabbed by a heron. Across the grass 
there was a well-worn path made by otters from the stream to 
the lake. The ground was too dry to show their foot marks, 
but I found their “wedge,” which when once known can easily 
be recognised. Otters there are plentiful, and they live in 
peace. 
As we could catch no trout we revenged ourselves on the 
shoals of dace in the lake by standing on the bank and pre- 
senting our flies to the largest fish, which we pulled out as fast 
as we liked, until I cried “ ’Tis simple butchery.” “ Not a bit of 
it,” was the only reply 1 could get, “ they are a lot of swine, and 
eat the food of nobler fish.” 
I am glad to say that this young Norfolk rector has become 
on good terms with the keepers, and among other things has 
induced them to spare the owls ; as a consequence these birds are 
frequently to be seen round his house. 
Our evenings were spent in various ways ; sometimes the 
violin was taken out of its case and a delicious hour or two 
passed, the husband accompanying his wife upon the piano, one 
of their many wedding presents It was bliss to see and hear 
them. 
Some persons employ their ingenuity and pen in discussing 
the question “ Is life worth living ? ” In this sweet home, at all 
events, there can be but one answer. 
Edmund Thos. Daubeny. 
July, 1899. 
HOW SCENERY IS MADE. 
VII. — The Action of Ice and its Effects. 
O understand what ice can do and has done, one ought 
to go to the Arctic regions, the Alps and North Wales. 
Photographs of Greenland show us a great sheet of 
ice to be lying all over that island or continent, which- 
ever it be, sending gigantic glaciers down the gorge-like fiords 
into the sea. As soon as they float out far enough to break off, 
the terminal portions sail away as icebergs. Besides these. 
