xviii CONTENTS 



from Other Waters Prominent Builders and Their Boats Decline 

 of Large Yachts Racing Machines The Gossip and Her Followers 

 Successful Boats Dinghys arid Dinghy Racing Origin of the 

 Broads Dinghy Club Its Object and Officers Origin of the 

 Waveney Sailing Club and Its Objects Classifications in the 

 Various Clubs The Rating of Yachts and how arrived at 

 A Formula with Example Measurement Fees The Wroxham 

 Week, Past and Present List of Annual Regattas and Sailing 

 Fixtures How the Admiralty Warrant was obtained for the 

 Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club The Royal Warrant -Hoisting 

 the Colours, and the Celebration Dinner The New Club House 



pages 274-306 



CHAPTER XXII 

 UNDER THE LEE OF THE NORFOLK SANDHILLS 



A Pressing Invitation A Cold Drive and a Welcome Haven An 

 Important Mission A Sunday Morning Volunteering for Church 

 Service Bell-Tolling Extraordinary A Broadland Service The 

 Interior of the Church The Rector Pike Fishing Waterfowl- 

 Shooting under the Lee of the Norfolk Sandhills Description of 

 the Country Exciting Sport The Advantages of a Gun-Sling 

 A Mirage Returning Homewards . . . 'pages 307-316 



CHAPTER XXIII 

 TENCH TICKLING 



A Quiet Sail Disturbing a Poacher at Work A Surly Customer The 

 Soothing Influence of Beer Ways that are Dark and Tricks that 

 are Vain Tench Tickling Its Originators The Best Time, Place 

 and Methods of practising the Art Compared with Trout Tickling 

 Abundance of Tench in Broadland How to take Them in Bow- 

 Nets "Doctor Fish" How to prepare and cook Them 



pages 317-323 



CHAPTER XXIV 

 PIKE AND PIKE FISHING 



Pike Fishing in Broadland The Best Time to Fish Voracious Appetite 

 Poaching Devices Liggers or Trimmers Night Lines and 

 Crotch Stick-Trimmers Snaring Spearing by Night Large 

 Baskets taken with Rod and Line The Best Centres An 

 Amusing Tug-of-War between a Gander and a Pike Professor Day 

 Methods of Angling Bait Landing-Nets and Gaffs A Day's 



