HOW TO MAKE TROUT-FISHING 



By the Right Hon. Sir HERBERT MAXWELL, Bart. 



Angling has a more permanent hold upon its votaries than 

 any other field-sport. Upon its votaries, I say, being quite 

 aware that the passion is far from universal. Were it ex- 

 pedient, I could name a round dozen of landowners who 

 own also some of the choicest salmon waters in the realm, 

 and the last thing they think of doing for recreation is to 

 stretch a line upon one of them. Two or three years ago I 

 was the guest of one who possesses exclusive rights over three 

 of the most delectable and productive salmon rivers in the 

 north, yet who never has killed a salmon. I doubt whether 

 he has ever tried. Upon one of these rivers I was to have 

 my fling on a blustery April morn. Having bolted breakfast 

 with the usual feverish impatience to be off, I was stamping 

 about the entrance hall waiting for the motor that was to bear 

 me to the riverside, when my host's son made his appearance. 

 A pang shot through what a classical Greek would have re- 

 ferred to as rd a-TrXdyxva, but what a modcm ladies' tailor 

 would indicate as my " lower chest," for methought the youth 

 would surely come with me — naturally, seeing that he could 

 not possibly have nobler game in view than the capture of 

 spring salmon. He had not broken his fast yet ; his repast 



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