CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 



FACE 



Treats my Father paid for I get a Fright Sporting Parsons 



I lose my Photographer ..... i 



CHAPTER II 



The Confidence of Youth prevails " The Hunter's Inn" Fish- 

 ing for Trout and Hunting for Fairies . . .10 



CHAPTER III 

 A Girl's mad Ride The Simonsbath Pony We beg a Cup 



of Tea and get a great Surprise On the Moor . . 26 



CHAPTER IV 

 Courting the Queen of Fishes A Disappointment . . 40 



CHAPTER V 



A Woman's successful Plotting A prosperous Farm and its 

 happy Occupants I steal away in the grey Dawn and 

 get a Fish for Breakfast . . . . .48 



CHAPTER VI 

 Minnows, please Shooting a Fox A Terror of a Pike A big 



Otter ....... 61 



CHAPTER VII 

 Three married Couples go a-fishing, get wet, and visit Uncle 



Uncle's little Mistake ..... 78 



CHAPTER VIII 

 Jack or Pike ? Our Doctor steals a Day The Duck Shoot . 90 



CHAPTER IX 



A learned Editor and a clever Artist down Salisbury Way for Pike 108 



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