that case. There need not be wonderment. He was 

 not under the necessity, like so many of us, of crowding 

 a maximum of fishing into a minimum of time. His 

 fishing visits signified taking quarters and fishing the 

 season through, a succession of friends sharing the 

 pleasure. The host would be looking patiently after 

 his water, collecting insects, carrying out experiments, 

 making notes, concerning himself with banks and weeds 

 filling the days to the full with useful occupation, 

 which, of course, gave a zest to his actual fishing when 

 he took it. Within a fortnight of his death he was to 

 take up his quarters at Dunbridge for the season ; 

 all arrangements were made, and Coxon, the faithful 

 keeper, was ready to point out what had been done 

 during the winter. And Coxon was one of the mourners 

 at the Saturday's funeral in the Jewish Cemetery at 

 Willesden. 



It will be of interest and useful here to announce 

 that Mr. Ernest Halford, after long consideration of 

 what his father's wish would be, decided to maintain 

 the fishery in all respects as it had been maintained since 

 the beginning of the tenancy. Mr. Halford was im- 

 mensely popular in the Mottisfont district, and I may 

 mention that they had given a great ovation to his son 

 and grandson on occasions when they attended or 

 presided at the annual dinners to the tenants and 

 workpeople on the fishery. That grandson, Halford 

 always believed, would by and by develop the 

 family fishing traditions. The young gentleman was 

 meanwhile at Clifton College, and had already killed 

 his brace of rainbow trout, which his father had pre- 

 served for the collection in the gallery at Pembridge 

 Place; and these, at my last visit to him at home, 

 F. M. H. showed me, beaming with pride. His pride 

 also took the form of setting the head of the firm of 



