ANGLING SKETCHES 



THE BOATMAN'S YARNS 



OOD trout-fishing in Scot- 

 land, south of 

 the Pentland 

 Firth, is almost 

 impossible to 

 procure. There 

 are better fish, and more of 

 them, in the Wandle, within 

 twenty minutes of Victoria 

 Station, than in any equal stretch of any Scotch 

 river with which I am acquainted. But the 

 pleasure of angling, luckily, does not consist 

 merely of the catching of fish. The Wandle 

 is rather too suburban for some tastes, which 

 prefer smaller trout, better air, and wilder 



