CHAPTER V 



OUR WHITSUN HOLIDAY ON THE ITCHEN, 



1907 



The House that Jack built The Old Man New style ot 

 waders The Itchen revisited The beauties cf Nature 

 unappreciated " Wickham's Fancy" preferred by 

 trout Some "psychic" moments The keeper 

 Trouble in the river My Lady Piscatrix unfortunate 

 A beautiful trout on the hook in full play ' ' Come 

 away time is up " Big trout lost. 



THIS is the House that Jack built ; and here is 

 the Old Man, all tattered and torn, you may be 

 sure a fisherman born, who lodged in this house 

 that Jack built. The Old Man was an angler 

 with a worm, a bent pin, thread and willow 

 wand in the days when George the Fourth 

 was king. He may have hooked a trout or 

 two before King William died, he lived through 

 the Victorian era, and now in King Edward's 

 days he is still able and willing to go a-fishing. 

 I have given you his portrait, not on account 



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