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" Clare Island, 

 "Westport, Mayo, 

 "Sept. 25/A, 1905. 



" I am writing to ask if you will kindly on your 

 return home get for me a rod, line, traces and lures, 

 for which I should be much obliged to you and will 

 send a cheque immediately I know the cost. ' Did 

 you get any of the gentlemen's baits ? ' is being 

 constantly asked. From time immemorial the only 

 bait used here has been the freshwater eel but your 

 success at all times of the day, while we have never 

 thought of trying except early or late, has quite 

 wakened us up to try your methods. I hope you 

 are having good sport at Roundstone ; indeed, I 

 wish you and your son such a happy time that you 

 will want to come again. Yours faithfully, 



"J. J. M'CABE." 



We thought much of Clare Island and desire to 

 recommend it to those who would wish for a glorious 

 time where troubles do not come, where rates are 

 never paid ; where the people are most obliging, 

 fish plentiful and Atlantic breezes come from every 

 quarter. It is quite an easy journey. If you travel 

 with the mail from Euston (eight forty -five P.M.) you 

 will be at Dublin at six A.M., at Westport eleven 

 forty-five A.M. and, if thereafter you stick to the mail 

 bags, you will be across and fishing before the day 

 is out. 



