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at Hurlingham or pony-racing over Ramsgate 

 sands. As good fishermen sport with roach on 

 the Lea as with salmon in the Tay. Dives shoots 

 stags, and Lazarus rabbits, but each can play the 

 game ; nor is he who drives a 70 horse-power motor 

 necessarily a better sportsman than his poorer 

 neighbour who drives a 1 -horse-power dog-cart. 

 These are platitudes, yet they are often ignored. 

 While some games, like hockey and football, 

 seemingly afford little range of expenditure, others, 

 like golf or polo, can obviously be adapted to a 

 variety of income. 



In the sport of fishing, the range of expenditure 

 is a very wide one indeed. The ambition most 

 costly to gratify is the command of high-class 

 trout-fishing in the vicinity of London. Indeed, 

 both trout and salmon are expensive objects for 

 the angler, unless he is prepared to travel in search 

 of them far from the comforts of civilisation, 

 spending time and money on the journey and 

 seeking his sport in remote northern lakes and 

 rivers so inaccessible to the world's business 

 centres as to be not yet overfished. The cheapest 

 fishing in this country is that known, somewhat 

 unfortunately, as " coarse," a term used by 

 naturalists to distinguish members of the carp 

 family, eels and one or two other groups from the 

 " game " salmon and trout and their kind. No 

 offence whatever can have been intended towards 



