152 FISHING FOR PLEASURE 



what Wales is losing, and losing it more every 

 year. Good fishing attracts not only anglers, 

 but their families, not only their families, but 

 their friends. 



Wales is so beautiful that if her rivers and 

 lakes were properly preserved and stocked no 

 other place in this world would better deserve 

 the name of paradise. 



It is not saying a little to say that I doubt if 

 any Welshman rejoiced more than I did when 

 the London newspaper boys yelled, " Defeat of 

 New Zealand." Ireland was beaten, Scotland 

 was beaten, I had myself seen England beaten, 

 and it was simply delightful to find those splen- 

 did New Zealanders had met their masters in 

 Wales. Why did not somebody tell them to 

 omit their war song ! They simply challenged a 

 nation of singers. We Irish and Scotch and 

 English do not begin to know how to sing as 

 compared with the Welsh, and once get them on 

 that lay, " the spirits of their fathers will start 

 from every grave, "and no wonder our New Zea- 

 land friends were daunted ! 



CHISWICK PRKSS: PRINTED BY CHARLKS WHITTINC.HAM AND CO. 

 TOOKS COUKT, CHANCERY LANK, LONDON. 



