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its modes of thought , as well as of action [ and tranquillity . Away to the fresh fields * then , we hastened : the reader may think as he pleases about our fishing . He must at least perceive that we were impelled
by the desire of enjoying the country on the second visitation of that season , the single existence of which has been denied by the Italian , who observed that , " we had in England , six months of winter , and six months of very cold weather ; " by the Persian , who
declared that " we had no fruit here that ever came to be eatably ripe , except the roasted apple ; " and by the expression of Coleridge , who , writing to Lamb , commenced his letter with— " Summer has set in with its usual severity . " Being informed by a friend—a keen hand * at a fish—that there was ffood sport to be had in the
neighbourhood of Harefield , along the banks of the streams supplying : the mills of the Mines Royal , Mineral , and Battery Works , and that he had duly obtained permission of the Cotnpany to throw his float" there , it was agreed to proceed to action immediately . He departed at the time
appointed . We followed him by the Oxford mail—having lost the Harefield coach by stopping at A print-shop on the wayan 4 getting down at Uxbridge , scrambled across four miles of green lanes , green fields , and equally green ditches , till we reached our friend , who had been hard at work with his rod
some two hours already by his ; own infernally accurate watch , which he drew forth and tacitly presented at us in all the bitterness of a reproach too big for human utterance .
" Any spo— —' sport we were venturing to say /' after remaining silent some time ; but the bright-eyed sportsman held up one finger from the rod * and said " hush , " in a most impressive manner .
" I am bent upon a trout , " whispered he , when several minutes had elapsed— * and if I have any luck—hush !—if I have any luck—be silent ! - — he ' s good three pounds , if he weighs an ounce—hush !—do be silent for God ' s sake—d ' ye think a trout ' s a fool !" * # # #
We would fain pass entirely over our disaster , even without the slightest mention of the circumstance . But deeply as it redounds to our discredit , the truth must be told . Our friend lost his trout ! He had actually hooked it , —but through our
stupidity and misdirected ex > citement , he actually lost it ! The " generous buck" escaped ! We have often ventured to think , in the cooler moments of reflection , that our friend might possibly have lost his intended prize without our assistance . Whether , however , the
disastrous event Was or was not " all our fault "—he certainly rtmde it appear to be * o , and has never had the same feeling for us since it occurred , whatever forgiveness he wiay exeirt himself to instil into his other-
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Harefield Copper Works . 335 >
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 1, 1837, page 335, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1837/page/39/
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