4 AN ANGLER AT LARGE 



men's animosity is very painful to me. For I 

 would go about the world among smiles and kind 

 words. A humble ambition, but not easy to 

 realise. 



To-day, however, the business was not so dire 

 as usual. The proprietor of our cottage had sent 

 his milk-float to meet us. Strange prompting of 

 Providence ! A milk-float is low, near the earth. 

 You can slide things from a barrow into a milk- 

 float. It is, therefore, the most suitable convey- 

 ance imaginable for harps that have arrived at 

 railway stations. The transfer was effected with- 

 out a suspicion of hernia. But the milk-float was 

 full. Yet astonishing and mysterious Destiny! 

 the proprietor of the fly, which I had ordered, 

 had sent also a luggage cart. Thus, owing to our 

 farmer-landlord having provided what must have 

 seemed to him twice the accommodation necessary 

 for our baggage, and to the fly's proprietor 

 (undesired) having furnished a cart which he 

 had, no doubt, thought of quite a reasonable size, 

 we were able, by careful packing of all three 

 vehicles, to get ourselves and our indispensables 

 carried in one journey to our and their destina- 

 tion. 



This kind of thing is largely responsible for the 

 widespread belief that Providence is a good person 

 to leave things to. Occasionally Providence, when 



