GOLDEN DAYS 



CHAPTER I 



A SPRING FISHING 



It is always worth while to keep a fishing- 

 log, for reasons apart from its value as a 

 reference of tactics or record of bare facts. 

 It is always a pleasure to turn back its 

 pages and so relive the past. Would 

 it not be delightful in these leaden times, 

 if we might carry our friends along with 

 us, back to those golden days ! Would 

 they understand, or would there be some 

 who, when they saw us going a-fishing, 

 merely thought we went a-catching fish ? 

 It is the spirit of fishing we would here 

 emphasise, its immeasurable charm and 

 mystery which ever leads us to green and 

 flower-girt pastures, on beyond the leafy 

 woods, where wild birds sing. Never can 



