XXIV 

 OLD JOYS IN NEW PLACES 



A*J omnivorous reader once declared that he 

 could read Dickens again for the first 

 time. The Irishry of this will be under- 

 stood. By the same token, in the angling 

 world, one may seem to come fascinatingly near 

 to catching one's first trout again ! The recipe 

 for this enterprise is : First, in boyhood's days, 

 rise, strike, play and land your first trout at home. 

 The memory of the juvenile hopes and fears 

 before that leaping trout became actually yours, 

 the exultation of " landed-at-last," all the details, 

 will be marked brightly in the mental storehouse. 

 Many and much bigger trout may be yours in 

 the homeland, in after years ; but never will that 

 very first trout be forgotten. 



Second item in the recipe : travel to, or 

 take up your abode in, one of His Majesty's 

 Dominions overseas, where there are trout. Go 

 trout fishing. You will then teel you are going 



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to catch your first trout again ! That was how I 

 regarded it. 



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True, you caught your first trout in England, 



