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liking for the new method, he had sneered 

 at anglers who used the old method, 

 which he flouted as "the chuck-it-and- 

 chance-it principle." In the literature of 

 the open air, his style had jarred. It had 

 seemed to me that the Lord Chancellor 

 would not have been more incongruous if 

 by way of introduction to the Speech 

 from the Throne he had danced a reel 

 on the Woolsack. I submitted those 

 thoughts to the Editor. Surely, I 

 urged, he would allow it to be a matter 



for grief that Lord G had been 



lacking in urbanity ? Angry words were 

 a misfit in the literature of sport. A 

 game-shot was not derided because he 

 didn't have a Purdy gun : why should an 

 angler be jibed at because he didn't use 

 the Dry Fly? The Editor smUed ; but 

 he was not persuaded. His answer was 

 to the effect that the article had been 

 written in a bit of a temper too : that the 



writer had been vexed with Lord G 



because his style had not been to the 

 credit of Toryism, which, it seemed, was 



