... started, the Doctor carrying rods and tackle, and I the bait can. Twenty minutes walk, down a lavely country lane, where the blackberries hung above the ferns in ripening clusters, brought us to a.gate, and through this we turned Into a field, where I then ...

... 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 ...

... carried on all alon e the river (as graphically described a contributor some months back), yellow trout were as p entiful as blackberries. Twenty. five years ago it was not an uncommon thing to get from twenty- ive to thirty brace of trout out of one pool, ...

... drive of six miles along semi-rural roads, through scenery such as only South Wales can bout The hedges were radiant with blackberries, and the sportive coneys darted from our approach with pretty timidity. At last we arrived at the grand old country mansion ...

... tackle and flies fully thrice as stout as mine, but then he had fished where the trout were, as he said, as plentiful as blackberries in autumn, and the visits of anglers few and far between, so I did not consider I haddone so badlyin comparison—for the ...

... veritable, indisputable salmon, was looked upon as a kind of piscatory god, men of the same ilk are now as plentiful as blackberries. Possibly it is a pity that it should be so, because it follows that salmon rivers are flogged continuously by a class ...

... fisherman, and a very fine one, too ; and I hope 187 to have better news for you next week. The bleak are rising as thick as blackberries ; swallows are about, and the cuckoo has been heard as long ago as a fortnight.—l I ENHY WOOL). The Suir and its T, ibutaries ...

... chief exertions were devoted to making believe very much and preserving very little. Why, poachers were as plentiful as blackberries in the autumn, yet they never got caught, and no wonder, as the class of men whose services had been secured by the payment ...

... this district is remarkably mild for the time of year. I have seen primroses and snowdrops in bloom, and I heard of some blackberries being found a few days agi. I have had no opportunity of trying, but I have no doubt that grayling would rise at fly on ...