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most notable hills in England, towering benignly 

 only a few miles away. 



He was delighted. He gave me his card and 

 I found that he was a distinguished official of the 

 Canadian Government. He had come over on 

 privy council business, and he wanted to see mid- 

 England. Twice he wrote to the inn. But, alas, 

 twice he received courteous replies, with the 

 regretful burden "full up." 



It was the same everywhere. In a Wiltshire 

 village, where the Avon glides, " my kingdom 

 for a room " seemed to be the cry. In a large 

 Worcestershire hotel by October, 1919, every 

 available room was booked for Whitsuntide, 1920. 

 Good trout fishing, pretty country, and comfort- 

 able quarters evidently are now an irresistible 

 attraction, and if anglers were plenty when " Red 

 Spinner " wrote the sentence I have quoted, they 

 must to-day be as the sands of the sea. " The 

 fascination of it" is proved. 



