TROUT FISHING 

 CHAPTER I 



KINSHIP WITH THE ARTS 



Patience : What Kind ? — Fishing and Shooting — 

 Anghng Cannot be Forced — BiUiards, Bridge^ 

 and Golf — " Keep your Flies on the Water "- — A 

 Magical Last Resource — Some Idiosyncrasies — 



C B ■ S , Lochleven Boatman, Mr. 



William Senior, Oneself, J S , A 



G , and Lord A — Trout's Sense of 



Colour — Sir Herbert Maxwell — The Spectator 

 and Mr. Andrew Lang — Why Fish take 

 Minnows — Ruddy Mayflies — A Reassuring 

 Theory — Ptarmigan, Red -deer, and other Wild 

 Creatures — Colour Must be Right to a Shade — 

 Floating Flies Sometimes a Mistake — Lord 

 Granby, Sir Edward Grey, Mr. Sydney Buxton 

 — The Book of Flies — Its Truth to Nature — 

 The Quality of Beauty— The Mood of Art. 



There are many persons who, when they 

 see a man fishing or hear one speaking 

 about the sport, smile in an indulgent 

 indifference. " O no : I could not have 



