CHAPTER IX 



OUR HOLIDAY IN CORNWALL 



August 1899 



CORNWALL has many attractions, but it 

 cannot be said that any one solely on 

 angling bent would be likely to choose 

 the Duchy of Cornwall in preference to the 

 Principality of Wales, or Scotland, or Ireland, or 

 many a spot in the kingdom of Great Britain ; but 

 I was not exclusively on angling bent. I only 

 hoped to pick up a little here and there by the 

 way, and so it was that we decided to find our 

 way to the end of England and gradually work 

 back from the farthermost west to the great 

 metropolis in the east. 



On Thursday, July 20, memorable for its suffo- 

 cating heat, we started for a nine hours' journey 

 by Great Western Railway. 



One of the attractions of going westward is that 

 you can place some reliance as to time on the 

 promises of the Great Western Railway. We kept 

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