52 FRESH WOODS. 



he did not turn up, I felt no compunction in 

 leaving his things to take care of themselves. 

 I was marching off across the meadow when 

 I descried him and another man trailing an 

 immense ladder, and I confess I felt some 

 elation at the thought that there are more 

 duffers than one in the angling world. 



