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hour or two of the house. With one boy it is 

 possible to drive Httle places for duck, which were 

 numerous, whilst a couple of hours on "Henderson's" 

 usually meant a dozen or two nice yellow trout, 

 with a sea-trout or two to add variety. One evening 

 I got hold of a beautiful sea-trout, which, having 

 just come from the sea, fought with especial vigour 

 for ten minutes. At last he gave in and was success- 

 fully brought to the net, and proved to be over 

 4 lbs. Another day on the sea stream I lost two 

 similar fish, both of which made a dash for the sea 

 and got round the masses of floating sea-weed. 

 As they jumped when hooked, I feel sure they were 

 both over 6 lbs., but then they got away, so I may 

 have been mistaken. At any rate none of us killed 

 a fish over 5 lbs., though we saw several up to 8 lbs. 

 or 9 lbs. leaping in the stream. 



Previous to this visit to Norway I had made 

 some study of the German spy system, as it was 

 necessary to do so concerning certain work which I 

 had undertaken. The German system was far 

 more elaborate than ours, but not necessarily better. 

 In every country, neutral and otherwise, both 

 prior to and during the Great War, the Germans 

 had organised large bodies of men (60,000) to help 

 their Intelligence Departments, and these in neutral 

 countries were not casual visitors, but mostly men 

 engaged in some business where their activities 

 would the least be suspected. In many instances 

 they were invalided soldiers, or men incapable of 

 serving in the army owing to defective eyesight, 

 and in consequence it was easy to detect them, 

 because (1) nearly all wore glasses or pince-nez; 

 (2) nearly all carried a German book under their 



