62 DAYS STOLEN FOR SPORT 



her perky head went sideways to look at it, then up 

 at me to ask if I did not think she was looking 

 better. I had no chance to answer this before it 

 was added to by : " How lucky we were to be 

 invited here when you needed a change so much ! 

 Don't you think so ? " 



At mathematical problems that have given 

 quantities sufficient for their solution, without the 

 aid of the algebraic x, I am really strong, but 

 the wife's involved questions I try to jump as I have 

 a notion that in some mysterious way they serve a 

 purpose without their answers. 



"Would you mind, dear, taking the fly rod and 

 catching me a bleak, while I change my tackle ? " 



" I have one, Phil. Bring the can," came before 

 I was quite prepared, so there was a little delay 

 before the freshly caught fish was swaying and 

 dancing on a bubbling run as if in fear of an enemy 

 below. Such movements sometimes rouse a trout, 

 and frequently a pike, to come to the surface with 

 a rush, although at that particular time they would 

 make no effort for the daintiest morsel that might 

 be going by them unencumbered and without fear. 

 This kind of cowardice is not peculiar to fish and, 

 although it is far from being a pleasant thought, we 

 have to think it a law of nature that the weak shall 

 be at the cruel mercy of the strong. 



A consequential pike, for which I would not have 

 crouched so low, seized the little fish, and, after 

 darting here and there and fighting lustily in vain, 

 opened his mouth and shook his head to give back 

 what he had taken, but all too late, and he fell a 

 victim. 



The pool was spoilt for a time, so, having no 



