WHEN LADIES FISH La7 
fact never have I risen a trout when casting with 
the left hand. I recognize clearly that it is 
advantageous to be able to throw with either 
hand, and the lady of the reservoir—I never knew 
her name—showed me how it could be done. 
Fishing has somehow always been associated 
with singing in my mind, and it struck me that it 
would be interesting to find out whether any of 
the leading lady singers were also attracted by a 
sport which is beloved by Mr. Plunket Greene 
and other famous male artists of song. There- 
fore, I asked Mrs. Francis Muecke (Madame 
Ada Crossley) whether she had ever been an 
angler. “Yes,” said this fine artist and very 
charming Australian lady—“I used to go deep- 
sea fishing as a girl in Gippsland; we used to ride 
to the Ninety Mile Beach, about sixteen miles 
away from my old home—of course every 
Australian rides! We always had wonderful 
sport, and we girls just loved the riding, the deep- 
sea fishing, and the fun of it all!” At the same 
time, I asked her husband, Mr. Francis Muecke, 
also an Australian, whether he had ever plied rod 
and line, and he spoke with glee of an occasion 
on which he went trout-fishing—on a river near 
King’s Lynn—and caught two trout, “and, what 
is more,” said the genial surgeon, “they were 
sizeable, by which I mean eatable!” I hope my 
good friends, Mr. and Mrs. Muecke, will take up 
fishing on their next Scottish holiday. 
The musical profession no doubt numbers a 
good many other lady anglers. That great 
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