THE SALT OF MY LIFE 



SPEAKING GENERALLY 



Apologies lor Sport Otter-hunting Cost of Sport 

 Coarse Fishing Sport and Food Popularity of Sea-fishing 

 Angling Competitions Critics of Sea-fishing Cases where 

 no Skill is Required Ways of Catching a Bass Danger and 

 Discomfort Sea-fishing in Winter Night-fishing Sea-sick- 

 ness Pier-fishing South Coast as Good as Anywhere Abroad 

 The Lessons of Failure. 



AN honest Scotsman once sat in a bar at Hud- 

 dersfield and listened with ill-concealed impatience 

 to the shallow pretexts with which one apologetic 

 tippler after another addressed himself to the lady- 

 in-waiting. The first, it seemed, suffered from a 

 sudden pain in his head ; the second had been 

 compelled to work and forego his sleep the night 

 before ; a third had only that moment been the 

 recipient of news of a family bereavement. 



" Miss," roared Donald at length, when he 

 could stand it no longer, " just gie me a dram 

 o' whisky because I LIKE IT ! " 



Outspoken Donald always comes to my mind 



whenever I hear a sportsman apologising for his 



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