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THE SALT OF MY LIFE 



three years earlier, with another friend, home on 

 furlough from Rangoon, I caught several on the 

 long June evenings, whiffing over the rocky ground. 

 We used either rubber eels or salmon-flies, the 

 latter extravagance being learnt from Alderman 

 Newlyn, several times Mayor of the Borough and 

 a very keen fisherman. 



RAMSGATE AT DAYBREAK 



Of late years the coast of Kent, thanks chiefly 

 to the popularity of Deal with London anglers, 

 has assumed great importance in the annals of 

 the sport. Odd days of luck I have had there, as 

 well as at Margate, Ramsgate, Dover and Folkes- 

 tone, but the county has not treated me as well 

 as some further west. My brightest memory of 

 Ramsgate is of the last week of May, 1889, a brief 



