xii PREFATORY NOTE 
is justified ; but trout fishing has given me so 
much pleasure beyond the actual wielding of the 
rod that I desired to try and pass some of it on to 
the general reader. The phrase “slippered ease” 
is Red Spinner’s. 
The bulk of the book appears in print for the 
first time. Some, however, has been rewritten 
from articles that appeared at one time or other in 
the Field, or in the Star, Johannesburg. For 
special permission to use this material, I tender 
cordial thanks to the proprietors of these journals. 
The chapter “A Berg Stream” (a Drakensberg 
river) was first published in the late Transvaal 
Leader, Johannesburg. 
Illustrations are given from photographs 
kindly provided by: Mrs. Basil Turner (formerly 
Miss Helen Farrar), Johannesburg ; Miss Muriel 
Farrar, Chicheley Hall, Newport Pagnell; Miss J. 
Watson, Edinburgh ; Major Fownes, Shrewsbury ; 
Major Wykeham Jones, Bath; Mr. A. J. Dent, 
Tenbury, Worcs ; Mr, W. C. Norris, Birmingham 
(through Mr. and Mrs. Walter Price, Cound 
Lodge, Shropshire) ; and Mr. George E. Shaw, 
Deptford Park. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Bernau 
have prepared the index. 
To all these I offer the heartiest gratitude. 
They have performed for me tasks which I could 
not do for myself, as I had to leave for South 
Africa before the proofs were ready. 
When serving, during the war, in the R.A.S,C. 
at Deptford Wharf, I happened to be billeted at 
go, Evelyn Street, Deptford Park, London, S.E, 8. 
