XXIV 
OLD JOYS IN NEW PLACES 
N omnivorous reader once declared that he 
could read Dickens again for the first 
time. The Irishry of this will be under- 
stood. By the same token, in the angling 
world, one may seem to come fascinatingly near 
to catching one’s first trout again! The recipe 
for this enterprise is: First, in boyhood’s days, 
rise, strike, play and land your first trout at home. 
The memory of the juvenile hopes and fears 
before that leaping trout became actually yours, 
the exultation of “landed-at-last,” all the details, 
will be marked brightly in the mental storehouse. 
Many and much bigger trout may be yours in 
the homeland, in after years; but never will that 
very first trout be forgotten. 
Second item in the recipe: travel to, or 
take up your abode in, one of His Majesty’s 
Dominions overseas, where there are trout. Go 
trout fishing. You will then feel you are going 
to catch your first trout again! That was how I 
regarded it. 
True, you caught your first trout in England, 
