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most notable hills in England, towering benignly 
only a few miles away. 
He was delighted. He gave me his card and 
I found that he was a distinguished official of the 
Canadian Government. He had come over on 
privy council business, and he wanted to see mid- 
England. Twice he wrote to the inn. But, alas, 
twice he received courteous replies, with the 
regretful burden “ full up.” 
It was the same everywhere. In a Wiltshire 
village, where the Avon glides, “my kingdom 
for a room” seemed to be the cry. In a large 
Worcestershire hotel by October, 1919, every 
available room was booked for Whitsuntide, 1920. 
Good trout fishing, pretty country, and comfort- 
able quarters evidently are now an irresistible 
attraction, and if anglers were plenty when “ Red 
Spinner ” wrote the sentence I have quoted, they 
must to-day be as the sands of the sea. ‘ The 
fascination of it” is proved. 
