CHAPTER X 



IN A WELSH VALLEY 



To the convinced trout fisher it is not essential 

 to have a constant succession of red-letter days or 

 to keep up a two-pound average. No one esteems 

 either benefit more than I, but I can manage to get 

 along quite happily without them, and so can the 

 rest of the little company which assembles year by 

 year on the bank of the small Welsh river, mentioned 

 already more than once in these pages, which I 

 always call the Penydwddwr. It is now some 

 years since we were all together there — war has 

 upset many a good old custom — but odd members 

 of the party have been there at some time or other 

 since 1914, and now that it is possible to look forward 

 again, great plans are being laid for a united descent 

 upon the well-loved valley. 



The Penydwddwr is a typical Welsh trout stream, 

 tliat is to say a typical upland trout stream. So far 

 as I have visited tliem I have found very little 

 difference between the mountain streams of any 

 part of the kingdom. Even the variation in the 

 size of the trout which is noticeable is, I think, more 



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