126 AN ANGLER AT LARGE 



to make, brown paper is too cheap ; the thing has 

 been overdone. Besides, it does not look at all 

 like a fish. It has not the glass eye of the cast. 

 It is flat, and though you colour it in chalk, it can 

 never compete with the modelling and paint of 

 the more expensive kind of trophy. No, one 

 looks down one's nose, now, at brown-paper fishes. 

 They are thoroughly discredited. The worst 

 angler dare no longer hope for help from them. 

 I have not made one for years. As in every walk 

 of life, there is in angling one law for the rich 

 and another for the poor. It is very hard. 



