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ANGLING SKETCHES 



How well one remembers deserting the gardener, 

 and already appreciating the jo}'s of having no 

 gillie nor attendant, of being 'alone with ourselves 

 and the goddess of fishing ' ! I cast away as well 

 as I could, and presently jerked a trout, a tiny one, 

 high up in the air out of the water. But he fell off 

 the hook again, he dropped in with a little splash, 



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and I rushed up to consult my tutor on his unsports- 

 manlike behaviour, and the disappointing, na\', 

 heart-breaking, occurrence. Was the trout not 

 morally caught, was there no wa}- of getting him to 

 see this and behave accordingly .? The gardener 

 feared there was none. Meanwhile he sat on the 

 bank and angled in a pool. ' Try mj- rod,' he said, 

 and, as soon as I had taken hold of it, ' pull up,' he 



