IV 



OF THE OTHER RODS, AND PARTICULARLY 

 OF MR. BLENNERHASSETT 



JOE tells me that this season there are three 

 men besides myself who are entitled to fish 

 hereabouts. 

 Joe is the keeper. The three men are : 



1. Slattery. 



2. A Mr. Blennerhassett. 



3. A Mr. Purfling. 



Slattery I know already. He lives here, and is 

 a permanent rod. I call him Slattery because it 

 is not his name, and because I have always wished 

 to know a man called Slattery, and I have never 

 been so lucky. This is the best I can do. Slattery 

 is a man of science. He owns a motor-car and a 

 billiard table and a beautiful garden and a kind 

 heart and Mrs. Slattery. Slattery is Fortune's 

 pet. His business, however there are drawbacks 

 even to being Slattery keeps him from the river 

 all day ; but by seven o'clock he is there. I shall 

 see him at seven o'clock this evening, and it will 

 be a good meeting. 



Purfling I have yet to meet. 



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