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surprised by to see a fine fat hare darting across the road a racing away through the grass. A hare in England always reminds an Australian of the early days of its colonization. I feel inclined to say to that hare "the trapping of some of your progenitors sent many a good man unwillingly to Australia, & England knows it now. Yet to a trap or shoot shoot a pheasant is still a crime in England.

(The English Farmer)
(English Farms & Farmers)

Fields & streams - not paddocks & creeks, as we call them -  the military insist on these terms being used are  conspicuous prominent features in the country surrounding the city of Salisbury. Isaac Walton fished in some of thes  the streams about Salisbury Plain and the reader who has peruses

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