EARLY MEMORIES 



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necessity of salt water for spawning eels, yet not 

 so many, after all, as doubted Galileo. We had 

 to use stout handlines, and the two elements of 

 interest in those excursions were first the contin- 

 ual fouling of our tackle in the rocks, from which 



HASTINGS, FROM THE CLIFF 



they were recovered by other folk at low tide, and, 

 secondly, the adroitness with which some of the 

 fishermen's lads aimed stones at us from seemingly 

 inaccessible ledges on the face of the cliff; By 

 great good luck, a belated member of this gilded 

 youth was caught red-handed by a couple of out- 

 raged sportsmen less than a week after one of 



