44 DAYS STOLEN FOR SPORT 



" There must be two sides to a question of to-be 

 or not-to-be, and we should not blame a woman 

 for choosing to be cautious. I think women much 

 more far-seeing than men. Now supposing any- 

 thing were to happen to you, and your widow 

 married a man who, not having sixpence of his 

 own, cared more for cash than motor-boats. Just 

 think how pleased he would be to have the money 

 ready to his hand to invest as he chose." 



"Would he? Will he? Well, I'm bio wed! I 

 say, Mr Geen, as widows shouldn't be allowed to 

 make fools of themselves, I say." 



" You wouldn't, I suppose," said I, " care to go in 

 for the Indian plan of burning widows with their 

 husbands' bodies ? " 



"Do they do that, Mr Geen? Well, I'm 

 blowed ! But they do give the unmarried ones 

 a chance, don't they ? " 



We were not favoured with a sign from the 

 Clewer Point fish although we stayed to tempt 



him for fully three hours, but X did not tire 



me, as some fishermen do, with repeated assur- 

 ances of its existence. It is a pleasing trait of 

 this man's character that what he has said, he has 

 said, and does not add to. 



Fish have their fast times ; so most anglers think, 

 and many loudly proclaim that they are too fre- 

 quent and prolonged. Thames trout are really 

 very trying ; not so much because of their fastings 

 as for their whimsical changings of feeding-time. 

 The month of April may slip by before you have 

 marked down and learnt the time of feeding of a 

 good fish, and May pass away before you discover 

 that the lengthening of the days has caused him 



