WHAT I HAVE SEEN WHILE FISHING 



can be asked for what is worse than nothing : as 

 may be seen by the following : 



My friend, A. C. J., gave, through a most reliable 

 negotiator, twenty-five pounds to secure fourteen 

 days on a river in Scotland last spring, and he 

 invited me to participate in his good fortune. We 

 found on our arrival there that we were a trifle 

 handicapped, inasmuch as Messrs. Sellers Brothers 

 had also purchased a right to fish the same pools, 

 and that the instruments they were privileged to 

 use cast ours in the shade, cast how we would. 

 They had the best of nets worked by the cleverest 

 netsmen personally conducted by Mr. Sellers, whose 

 early-and-late indefatigable perseverance was only 

 exceeded by his smiling good temper. 



Johnson rose a fish, and was stepping back to 

 give it the orthodox rest, when, seeing the net 

 sweeping down, I called to him to cast again 

 quickly ; but he turned to see why, saw Sellers 

 and his men coming, and then said something to 

 me in English, by which time the net was round 

 the fish. Sellers laughed, and said we should have 

 the fish we had so very nearly caught, and he 

 brought it to us ; after which we took train back to 

 Loch Ness. 



Fortunately, travelling is cheap and infinitely 

 more comfortable and pleasant than it used to be ; 

 you can now eat, drink and sleep, read or write, 

 while travelling at sixty miles per hour towards 

 your destination. So it is really no great hardship 



