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He said he had no idea that it would 

 be so costly a business. They could of 

 course, as his wife had intimated, lessen the 

 outlay somewhat by borrowing the necessary 

 implements from me, but even so it required 

 consideration. He would go home and talk 

 it over with Amaryllis in the light of the 

 information that I had so kindly given him. 

 He went, and for some days I heard no more 

 of the matter, which seemed just as well. It 

 would be absurd if these two young people 

 were really to add the angling fever to the 

 other woes of married life. 



Then came a note to me from Amaryllis. 

 " Please come to tea," it ran. " We have 

 found out where we can catch salmon for 

 nothing " she underlined the word " and 

 I want to show you how wrong you were." 



One rather likes to be shown how wrong 

 one was by Amaryllis, so I went and found 

 her triumphant. " There," she said, giving 

 me a little slip of newspaper as I took my 

 teacup, " what do you think of that ? Willy 

 said that what you didn't know about fish- 

 ing wasn't worth knowing. Is that worth 

 knowing, please ? " 



Amaryllis's eyelashes curl upwards at the 



