68 THE SUMMER 



Begin aday with trials of this kind,and 

 they will follow you about until even- 

 ing, if you can endure them so long. If 

 it is hot it is bad enough, but wind is 

 worse ; and, in either case, to sit down 

 and eat one's sandwiches provided 

 they haven't been lost on the way or left 

 reposing on a bank two miles lower down 

 is a positive effort, and to fall back up- 

 on a faithful flask for relief does not al- 

 ways dispel the dejection and ill-luck 

 that have accompanied you. 



So great are the worries and troubles 

 that sometimes more particularly in 

 these later days beset the angler, that 

 I once heard a friend, as keen a fisher- 

 man as ever wetted a line, in the dark- 

 ness of despair, swear by all the rivers 

 of the earth and all the waters under the 

 earth that he would never fish again. He 

 clinched his oath by taking the longest 

 drink of whisky that I ever saw an angler 

 swallow, and with a "Never again F'mut- 



