250 THE WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE 
ALL RIGHT, PETER, WE'LL BE 
ALL— THE — YEAR ~ ROUND 
FISHERMEN /— WELL START 
RIGHT NOW IN JANUARY 
AND SEE IF WE CAN'T GET 
a AS GOOD FISHING IN 
WINTER AS 
SUMMER | 
| Pruars IT, PETER, 
| SINK THE NET 
| WELL. FLL DRAW 
| THE FISH OVER IT || 
| THEN LIFT HIM 
QUIETLY OUT. 4 
Yi | FROM ‘A DACE. IN THE DACE 
\ THE EDGE 1S CONCAVE 
7 | WITH HIS HEAD UP | 
| STREAM. ALWAYS HAVE 
WET HANDS TO HANOLE 
A LIVE FISH—!IT HELPS 
| YOU NOT TO DISLODGE 
THEIR SCALES OR 
The opening strip of Mr Crabtree Goes Fishing 1949 (top left) and self portrait by Bernard Venables c 1990s (top right). ‘The 
Crabtree’s First Chub’ (bottom) is typical of the countryside care, conservation, and natural history intertwined with the technical ~ 
children when their fathers died and were 
influenced subsequently by artistic near relatives. 
Venables’ grandfather was an accomplished artist 
and Scott’s mother a professional sculptor. As if it 
were not enough for Scott to have been born of one 
detail in the strip. 
Isadora Duncan, 
famous parent, let alone a nationally acclaimed 
hero, his mother Kathleen was descended from 
Robert the Bruce, and was friends with such as 
T.E.Lawrence, and George 
Bernard Shaw in addition to a host of politicians 
