The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1866-07-03 00:00:00

fiOURZt EMOUTH.

RURAL —" The glorious scenes of spring.
I tad summer which I have seem by loch and river,
brook and more bumble pond, are still fresh in my
remembrance ss their own sweet herbs, their water
weeds and flowers, and all things as the year comes
round, speak to my heart as if with friendly voices.
Look 00 that little rippling shallow, the clearest
eater gliding o'er its yellow pebbly send; minnoes
sod gudgeons play there as if to tempt the Added'
line and worm. There, beneath its wooded banks.
its bed perhaps made by former gravel pits long.asea
Up, 55 large pond, its surface covered with green
weed on which the docks are feeding and moocher.
are calling to their black and callow young. The
sloping, sucking sound, is the trout beneath the
surface weed protruding its lips into the air as
seeks its food. Break but a apace amidst the thin
and floating weed in which to drop the line and
worm to deeper water, and the boy wilt book the,
olden coloured prey and find himself amassment.
While engaged in calm, though busy c intereplation,
ibe ear is sure to be charmed by feathered
minstrelsy. From some deep blackthorn brambly
ihade, the nightingale, in his Quaker suit, peers
forth the song that has been the poet's theme frtet
time immemorial; while over his bead, upon some
topmost bough, the thrush trills out with the like
Wien°e cf rivalry, his woodootes wild. In rich
sod mellow and more mournful notes, the blackbird.
in his sable livery, sings to his brooding mete, while
watchful to proclaim with screech a peening hawk,
the missal-thrush sweetly asserts her presence. Tie
mfter =abet and the turtle dove are cooing ti.
Down in the willows breathes a warbling chon,
smidst their bright green shoot.; there wag the
orbitethroat and the willow wrens, the reed sparrow,
and in the tiara, chime that beautiful and rarer lady
the blithe and bearded titmouse. Prom the hip;
Ors, as fluttering, pendant, clinging as, the golden
crested wrens, the titmouse, the eollesnotne, the bite
and larger tomtit, keep the air skive with chirping
, eloquence; while, low down in that thorn the 10%-
1 t;ided tits make for themselves • ho.. that, in
ingenuity, snepunes man's architectural skill. Ou
yonder Nanny spot of water among the weeds 1.•
mom-egged • shoal of tiny roach. They sheet is e
Nether like a "school " of mackerel at sea, the pos.;
poise or the bass beneath. Soared now by something
from above, they dart for shelter down below. The
"peep—peep—peep," • abort sharp whistle, emelt
from their enemy the fleber-kieg. His bright blow
jacket and his Wick-duet breast betray him as he
skims away. Prom the pond we will go to the
river, with the can filled with height dam, and.
longer living, hardier gudgeons. Behold that nook
among the bullirusbee; there is a shallow, at the
bottom of which something, with wide-stretched
eyes matches the serpent in death-like stiller:la it
looks long in its length, and dark, and yet it Is
bravely mottled; it is a pike of more than twenty
pounds' weight, no dead bet will take him, nor can
the map be used, in the erampsd, sunlit, shallow";
weedy spot. Light most be the line, and lively,
too, the heap bait. Theo, on the water, close ts -
yood his cover, let fall the line, with its &hottest
hook, and penes to watch the remdt. The longs
dark object scarosly moves his reedy ens, yet turn.
and points his nose directly towards tie bait. Re
quickly glides this way, and se he tomes, the tall
spears slightly move from the swell that laves their
roots. Suddenly the makes a dash, and, see t—the
gudgeon's gone! Pay out the line, scan to provost
a cheek being felt now slowly the monster glides
blZmisothvinthgegrls proclaiming that bait ii is gorged.
Now strike ; you have him; strong will be his run
but short, for like all cruel tyrants when they are
strut*, an effort and he yields. Not so either the
salmon, the troot, or the grayling; they are game to
the very dorsal tin, and light to the last "—My Lift
and Rexllediolut, by the Ho.. Gratttley F. Berkeley.
Hurst and Blackett, London.

THE BRAVE OLD TIMER-UHF.

(As sung with mush emphasis and in a very feeling
manner at the dinner of the Solicitors' Benevolent
Association. held at the Inns of Court Hotel, lendoo.
on the 22nd June, 1066. The Lord Chief Jamie' o(
England in the chair.)
Behold I how *banged is yonder ship,
The wreck of former pride,
Methinks I me her, as al old,
The glory of the tide.
As when she aurae to Nelson's aid,
The battle's brunt to hear,
And nobly sought to lead the vat,
The brave old Tetnenains
When sailors speak of fro/sips,
So famed for Nelson's kilt,
With pride they tell of her Gamer*
Her onward oases her might,
How, when the victory was woe,
She shone triumphant there,
With noble prise on either aide,
Tbe brava old Tenierabs.
Our friends depart sad are forgot.
As time rolls fleetly by,
In after years, pone, nee* are left,
For them to heave a sigh,
But hist'ry's page will Oret mark
The glories she did sham,
And gild the summt of her fate,
The brave old Temeraire.

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vigarating, end preserving the Hair, either from falling
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