PREFACE 



our country have passed, doubtless the reposeful 

 appeal of the gentle sport that lures one to the 

 fastnesses of the quiet woodland and into the 

 presence of musical waters will be more widely 

 and strongly felt than ever. It surely is one of 

 Dr. van Dyke's "peaceful things that will abide 

 for all the world after we have won this war 

 against war." Nor can one always be thinking of 

 war's horrors, even in their immediate presence, 

 and hence Secretary Lansing and Viscount Grey 

 go fishing without shocking any sensible persons; 

 even the soldiers behind the battle-line in 

 France thus seek solace in the intervals of action, 

 as do innumerable convalescent wounded in the 

 waters of the royal Windsor Great Park in 

 London, which have been thrown open to them. 

 The human mind demands and welcomes respite 

 and well that it is so fashioned, else sanity would 

 depart from all of us. I know the truth of this 

 though there are loved ones in Constantinople 

 from whom no word has been received in many 

 months, and amongst those valiantly serving 

 Over There is "Chubby," who only last Sum- 

 mer accompanied me upon his first real fishing 

 and camping trip. How the dear boy was en- 

 tranced with the whole affair! And who shall 

 explain how it was, on the second morning he 



