io8 A RECORD 



*' (5) Fishing In the Exe without a ticket." 



Unfortunately the unhappy salmlet was not 

 in a condition to be returned to the water, 

 but the lesson — not to meddle In sports one 

 does not understand — was not wasted on me. 

 I have never caught a fish since, though I 

 once did (in France) shoot a carp with a 

 rook rifie. 



Fortunately my case never came before 

 any Bench, but I remember one w^ilch did, 

 and which ran it pretty close. It was that 

 of a youth who shot a swan on the Lower 

 Wye. He was charged w^Ith 



(i) Carrying a gun without a licence ; 



(2) Infringement of the Wild Birds Pro- 

 tection Act ; and 



(3) Trespass In pursuit. 



Moreover, when he had finished at the 

 Police Court, he was summoned In the 



