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lythe (i.e., pollack) may die on the same hook in 

 successive casts, I was scarcely more fortunate. 

 The pike of a snow-bound Norfolk Broad, the 

 barbel at Datchet, the roach in a pond very famous 

 for those fish, have alike voted me the most trans- 

 parent of deceivers. 



Forth then fares my tale, over the seas of memory, 

 over the world's waters. It is good to get away 

 from the present, to join hands once again with 

 dead or absent shipmates, to feel the sting of 

 Pacific spindrift and the grandeur of the tropical 

 storm. It is also good to get back from the dream 

 to the reality, from the far off seas and coral 

 strands when 



" The Coastwise Lights of England give you 

 welcome back again ! " 



