THE FASCINATION OF IT ot 
He stood a good 6 ft. 2 in. and was a fine 
specimen of an angler, 
If fishing were much indulged in before the 
war, it came to be additionally attractive when 
the war had begun, and after it was over. It 
brought rest to tired, jaded nerves, and its sooth- 
ing properties and healing powers were very 
valuable to the convalescent. The Times news- 
paper, under the then editorship of Mr. Geoffrey 
Dawson (better remembered in South Africa by 
his former name of Mr. Geoffrey Robinson, 
private secretary to the High Commissioner, 
Lord Milner ; and afterwards editor of the Svar, 
Johannesburg), started a thoughtful, kindly 
scheme. This journal got into touch with a 
number of riparian owners, and made out a list 
of those who would give permission for wounded 
officers to fish in their private waters. Many a 
man was thus enabled to regain health and renew 
strength in the pleasant places of the land. 
“ There is nothing,” as Dr. Henry Van Dyke 
declares, “that attracts human nature more 
powerfully than the sport of tempting the un- 
known with a fishing line.” And I think there 
is nothing that proves of greater value to human 
nature exhausted by the stresses of war. 
A large part of the attractiveness of fishing 
consists in the brotherly love that is associated 
with it. It is perhaps true that an angler will 
not too readily divulge the secret of the fly on 
which he got his big basket of trout to other 
anglers who are fishing the same waters, And 
