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ishing angling entries in his diary, taken 

 haphazard: 'July 13, 18 10. Caught fish by 

 throwing the fly as I sat in the phaeton.' 

 (In another place the colonel declares that 

 it is as easy to kill fish from horseback as 

 on foot!) 'May 27, 1807. Longparish. 

 Killed twenty brace of trout with a fly in 

 three hours.' 'May 13, 1847. Having a 

 demand for fish, I brandished a fly rod. 

 The trout were so sulky, owing to the cold 

 storms, that it took me a long time to catch 

 ten brace.' On another occasion he tells 

 us that he went minnow-fishing in the dusk 

 of the evening, and lost all the best time 

 by having to send home for some fresh 

 tackle, ' and on its arrival the first and only 

 fish I caught with it was the very one which 

 had just broken my line, and from whose 

 mouth I pulled out my former hooks, gut, 

 swivels,' etc. Longparish trout, killed by 

 the ten-brace and the twenty-brace in the 

 height of the season by an angler who 

 thought nothing of fishing from his carriage 

 or his horse's back, and who, as we know 



