A SEA OF GLORY 
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As I sat one day in my summer-house a kingfisher settled 
down on the wire netting quite close to me. I w’as concealed 
by some honeysuckle. There he remained for several minutes 
before choosing to move on. These birds were always to be 
seen in my garden, and very proud indeed I was of their 
company. Another day, it was early in September, a covey of 
partridges that were terrified by being shot at, settled in the 
moat. Here my landing net came in useful, and I secured 
several brace without taking out a game license. 
People used often to come and have a look at my trout. 
One afternoon a number of ladies and gentlemen, members of a 
bicycle club, rode up to my door and asked permission to see 
them. I always fed my fish when standing as close as possible 
to the edge of the water, so as to accustom them to my presence, 
and on this occasion my trout performed beautifully. My 
gardener soon produced a pot full of worms. My visitors were 
quietly ranged close behind me, and the fish rushed out to seize 
the worms the moment they were thrown one by one into the 
water. 
One of the greatest regrets I had when leaving the south 
coast for East Anglia was when taking leave of my pet trout. 
Market Weston, Thetford. Edmund Thos. Daubeny. 
A SEA OF GLORY. 
N the night of September 14, the dwellers and visitors 
along the coast of easternmost England, and the 
fishermen who were afloat on the sea not far from the 
shore, were able to witness a spectacle such as is 
seldom seen around the English coast. On that night, from 
dusk till midnight, the waters lying between Lowestoft Ness 
and the network of sandbanks outside the roadstead were phos- 
phorescent to a degree of brilliancy surpassing anything of 
the kind remembered by the oldest beachmen and fishermen of 
the district. During the day the temperature had been the 
highest recorded this year, the thermometer registering 125-5° 
in the sun. The sea temperature, taken at Lowestoft pier-head 
at II a m. was 64°. For several days the weather had been 
warm and calm ; and on September 14 there was, during the 
early part of the day, only a faint breeze from the N.N.E. 
In the evening the breeze strengthened a little, so as to set 
slight ripples flowing on the otherwise smooth surface of the 
sea, and these, flooding up the shelving beach and washing over 
the coastline shoals, caused a scarcely perceptible murmur that 
might have been only the breathing of the breeze. For some 
hours a change in the weather had been anticipated, for at noon 
the barometer fell to below thirty inches ; but it rose again 
