AND HOW I HAVE CAUGHT MY FISH 35 



years since, I think it better to give you the more 

 recent experiences of the writer of the following 

 letter : 



"TEELIN NATIONAL SCHOOLS, CARRICK, 

 " October 19, 1903. 



" DEAR MR. GEEN, I really must write to tell you of the 

 wonderful sport I had here after you left. The sunken rocks 

 and headlands must have been swarming with big ones ; but no 

 matter how many or how large they were that I brought to the 

 pier, the fishermen and coastguardsmen would be sure to say you 

 and your son had taken ten times as many, and larger ones. 

 During the school holidays I visited Killybegs, where I had great 

 hauls, some specimens weighing over i4lb. Thank you again 

 and again for the wire and leads. Come again to Ireland, and 

 do not forget how pleased I shall be for you or any of your 

 English friends to use my boat. Faithfully yours, \ 



"J. BOYLE." 



Killybegs' main street was not easily negotiated 

 as we sought to leave the town for Carrick. The 

 din and gesticulations of the excited crowds offering 

 their wares and animals for sale, with the jaunting- 

 cars everywhere and in every possible position, 

 some with their long shafts pointed heavenwards, 

 as if in appeal against the rough usage being dealt 

 out to them by other cars horsed by ill-tempered 

 or frightened animals, made up a Bedlam of dis- 

 order, while the drivers, madder than the brutes 

 they drove, made confusion worse confounded. 



It was a relief to leave the quaint and interesting, 

 but noisy, sights which, judging from the numbers 

 and variety we met going fairwards, would grow 

 more quaint and interesting towards evening. 

 Bustling lads in coveys of a dozen or more, toying 



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