60 FISHING FOR PLEASURE 



thunder, and as they were moored half a mile 

 away from any shelter, the Major luckily took 

 the hint; they landed, and running with all the 

 speed they could muster along the desert shore, 

 they reached the solitary little Sailors' Inn just 

 in time before the rain came down in torrents, 

 and so ended the angling expedition of these 

 " three men in a punt." 



