... Scott, holding forth about Fair Melrose and pale moonlight, I resumed the rod, and knickerbockers took t 3 blackberrying. The minnows proved so effective that my visitor left town with a good sized creel full of perch, and for home consumption ...

... and there is a very rapid, deep current below, unobstructed by stones or weeds. Here barbel were once as plentiful as blackberries in autumn. There may not be so many now because the swim has been terribly over-fished, but in the time of which I write ...

... Trotter showed nice roach from eybridge ; Mr Moore, tench from Pulborough. ',this gentleman also got a very large take of blackberries, and very fine they were ; of course he never weighed them in, as they were absolutely not for show or sale. On Tuesday ...

... host's beet October brew, you journey on over a number of meadows, through a long lane with hedges completely covered with blackberries, until you reach a rustic bridge. This marks the course of the Erewash. At the time of my visit the water was very low ...