The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . what would otherwise be a greatgap in Ins piscatorial life. But for the gray-ling. Ins rods would hang upon the wall during thelong winter months, a mournful, half accusingrow, unused, and perhaps uncared for. There are not wanting those who cry a mart whenthe very name grayling ?• is breathed—thosewho would fain exterminate it, in view of somefanciful presumption of injury to the trout ; butsurely the sport derived from October until theend of February with this gamesome fish, far out-weighs any objection which, right
The sports of the world, with illustrations from drawings and photographs . what would otherwise be a greatgap in Ins piscatorial life. But for the gray-ling. Ins rods would hang upon the wall during thelong winter months, a mournful, half accusingrow, unused, and perhaps uncared for. There are not wanting those who cry a mart whenthe very name grayling ?• is breathed—thosewho would fain exterminate it, in view of somefanciful presumption of injury to the trout ; butsurely the sport derived from October until theend of February with this gamesome fish, far out-weighs any objection which, rightly or wrongly,may be raised concerning the abstraction of thesustenance which should go for the trout or in mnection with the charge which has been broughtagainst the fair fish, buf nol proved, of bullying Ins more highly-prized relative. Inregard, too, to the sport he gives, he has beenated after the manner of the proverb, Give adog a bad name and it will stick to him. He hasi en called dead-hearted, is said to have little 84 THE SPORTS OF THE THE WINE CELLAR.(Photo ; Freeman, Hungerford ) fight in him, and to succumb quickly after havingbeen hooked. But let him be angled for in hisproper season with a microscopic ooo fly andslender tackle, and those who thus condemn himwill be forced to own that in decrving and despisinghis prowess they have committed a great andgrievous mistake and have done him scantjustice. In Octobers month, when the trees are tingedwith autumns ruddy glow and the leafage is stillgorgeouslv tinted with dark rich brown, deepIndian yellow, and various shades of red andamber, that season of mists and mellow fruitful-ness of which Keats writes so charmingly, theseeker after St Ambroses flower fish betakes him-self to work in real earnest and pursues his recre-ation through inclement winters which . . vex the plain With piercing frosts or thick descending rain in all sorts of weather, good, bad, and generally in-different, until the ti
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