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Fayoum A night of noises Nothing to shoot at Potting at 

 pelicans A weird draft of fishes Laying up for jackals Ted 

 makes a bloomer . . . . . . . . 226 



CHAPTER XXI 



The Orkneys The perils of the Pentland Firth The Leinster and 

 Albatross in collision " Scrubbing " the old man Graeme's 

 Hall Mixed sport galore More snipe than sea-trout Novel 

 angling An unexpected catch Success with the sea-trout at last 

 Dr. Straton, Bishop of Sodor and Man He finds voe-fishing a 

 washout And resorts to the gun With great effect Sweep dis- 

 graces himself And calls for unclerical language A couple ol 

 snipe to one barrel and a coincidence ..... 239 



CHAPTER XXII 



Sweep adopts " Little Willie " And amazes the Bishop Dr. Straton 

 appreciative of music and champagne Cod-fishing extraordinary 

 And haddock galore Man-eating mackerel John Gunn (not 

 of Notts) The Blue Rock of the caves The C.O., Henry George, 

 Gunn and myself set out to attack them A high test for the 

 gunner A storm brewing And deadly peril impending A dour 

 struggle against Fate The C.O. collapses A narrow squeak, but 

 we make port The telepathy of the canine race And its reasoning 

 intelligence Henry George and I go to Burry Island Golden 

 plover I out-manoeuvre them Henry George is convinced I have 

 gone " barmy " And so informs my household The wild- fowl of 

 the Orkneys The black-throated diver touches my heart . . 249 



CHAPTER XXIII 



Ribigill Forty miles in a " machine " Midges Teaching the young 

 idea Who shoots well Grouse over dogs A roe-deer drive I 

 account for a buck And am sorry I did it Marcus peppers the 

 keeper An attempt at blackmail which failed The Bishop 

 arrives And suggests an expedition to Loch Dianard " Oh, 

 what a night ! " A complete washout But a salmon hooked and 

 lost Sea fishing in the Kyles of Tongue A family party Very 

 like a whale The stormy winds do blow And the children went 

 below Another struggle with the waves A safe landing But a 

 death-trap A nerve-wracking climb Safety Home and beauty. 262 



CHAPTER XXIV 



Norway The Sand River An unsatisfactory arrangement The 

 Aasen Pool and Foss Lars Petersen and Tolle Svensen Tom 

 Lambert and his wife A partnership Marcus scores And I 

 follow suit My feeble spoof The heavenly twins A bumptious 

 salmon A dangerous swim and a curious catch The Sand runs 

 low But new methods are successful Six years pass Again on 

 the Sand Teddy Maurice's wonderful invention His demonstra- 

 .tion thereof We refuse to adopt it I get hold of a monster Tom 

 is flabbergasted " My God, Cockie, what a fish ! 1 " A Homeric 

 struggle All Sand comes out to see the fun Hopes and fears 

 Success at last So near and yet so far An exasperating loss 

 The C.O. goes a-fishing She " strikes " (the water) and 

 refuses to let her salmon go Prawn punching A knack not 

 easily learned The tragedy of the Foss A bank subsides and 

 puts an end to our sport ........ 271 



