HOW TO MAKE TROUT-FISHING 



June when I saw four fishers descending the steep path leading 

 down the brae between Saltoun House and the Haddington- 

 shire Tyne. Each of them had a trout-rod in his hand ; the 

 flush of expectation lit up their faces ; they were as keen and 

 jealous as schoolboys on an exeat ; yet of the quartette only one 

 was less than fourscore years of age. They have all crossed the 

 bourne long since, but in that year Lord Wemyss was eighty- 

 one, Sir George Grant-Suttie and Mr. Fletcher of Saltoun were 

 eighty, only Mr. Fletcher Campbell was but seventy-nine. 



Nay, but have we not one with us still whose prowess has 

 been recognised by the unique distinction of naming two 

 very dissimilar flies after him — the Greenwell salmon fly and 

 the Greenwell trout fly ? Nor need any angler — not I, at 

 least — think that any disability were imposed on him if he 

 should be restricted to the exclusive use of these two well- 

 tried killers. Turn up Canon Greenwell's name in Who's 

 Who, and you will notice, at the end of a list of erudite works 

 whereof he is the author, the words, " Recreation : angling 

 (trout and salmon)." You will also note that he was born in 

 the year 1820, and is therefore in his ninety-third year, yet 

 last summer he was at his beloved waterside, and the contents 

 of his basket proved that his pristine skill had not deserted him. 



Enough said (though much might be added if need were) 

 to support my thesis that, of all the forms of pursuit included 

 in the category of sport, angling creates the most enduring 

 passion in those who once become enamoured thereof. And 

 in this twentieth century so vastly has the number of the 

 enamoured increased that rich men are tumbling over each 



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