CHAPTER V 



AN ANGLER'S PARADISE 

 I.— NORTHWARD BOUND 



►HAT a fascination there is in 

 the word North! It is truly 

 called the Magnetic North. One 

 can understand the attraction felt 

 by the able-bodied man in the prime 

 of his strength for Arctic explora- 

 tion ; how he can, despite many 

 hardships, return again and again 

 to that mystic region with its long 

 summer days, its mysterious and 

 often glorious winter nights. 



My journey ings northward have 

 not exceeded the limits of Scotland 

 and her out-lying islands. But even within the 

 bounds of this Scotland you can feel the strange 

 fascination of the northern summer, with its glorious 

 days and long luminous twilights — the mystery of 



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