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there are limits to one's greed under circum- 

 stances such as those just described. Part of our 

 success was no doubt due to having the ground 

 to ourselves. As it was Saturday, none of the 

 regular fishermen were out, but might be found 

 loafing round the harbour or sitting on the old 

 benches talking parish pump politics with the 

 gaffers. 



It will not have escaped notice that the bass 

 has so far received but scant notice in these 

 accounts of Mevagissey. The fact is Mevagissey 

 is not a first rate station for that particular fish. 

 Looe, Falmouth, and Padstow all offer better 

 chances, though much of their other fishing is 

 vastly inferior. Still, an occasional big bass may 

 be caught by those who care to devote much time 

 to little result. Just west of the port is a long, 

 low promontory known as Chapel Point. On 

 the rocks which uncover at low water just at the 

 end of the Point, I once flushed a covey of part- 

 ridges, which had in all probability run before me 

 as I walked slowly down the fields to the edge of 

 the sea and were reluctant to take wing until the 

 last possible moment, though as it was only the 

 third week in August, they ought scarcely to have 

 remembered the dread gun. So unusual a spot 

 for partridges, twenty or thirty yards below 

 spring low water mark, suggested a query whether, 

 holding a game license a fortnight later, I should 



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