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EARLY MEMORIES 



Lowestoft in 1880 Bournemouth Pier, 1881 Hastings in 

 the Eighties Pout-fishing in Sussex and Cornwall Original- 

 ity sometimes the Secret of Success Pier Crowds A Conger 

 caught and a Bass Lost Sport with a Stingray off Adelaide 

 Rambles among the Rocks Digging Lugworms for Bait 

 The Unregenerate Use of " Night-hooks "The Aboriginals 

 of East Sussex Small Game at Bognor Wrasse instead of 

 Mullet Littlehampton Imaginary Bass in the Arun 

 Fishing in Canals Modern Development of Bournemouth A 

 Good Bag Trouble with the Steamers Rocks in Bourne- 

 mouth Bay Dogfish Pollack Kent Ramsgate and a 

 Failure Deal and Its Competitions The Admiralty Pier and 

 Other Spots at Dover Changes at that Port Early History 

 of the British Sea Anglers' Society. 



IN order to stretch this retrospect to that quarter 

 of a century which is commonly accepted as the 

 minimum range allowed to the vanity of auto- 

 biography, I must conjure up dim memories of 

 the Lowestoft quays in the year eighteen hundred 

 and eighty, where, close beside a drawbridge, that 

 was usually open when one had to catch a train, 

 we angled, unsuccessfully for the most part but 

 with the application of zealots, for the smelts that 

 foregathered among the piles. A fond parent 

 misspent much of his leisure in holding firmly to 



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