VII 
THE LUCK OF SALMON FISHING 
I HAVE always sympathised with the author of the 
lines known as " The Angler's Prayer," lines 
which are not so well known as they deserve to 
be: 
Lord, suffer me to catch a fish — 
So large that even I 
When talking of it afterwards 
May have no need to lie. 
In the spring of 1921 came the tragedy of my 
life as a fisherman. I had five days' fishing in the 
famous river Wye. The river was dead low and 
my chances of success very small, but I kept 
steadily at Avork during the time at my disposal, 
and on the fourth day had the good fortune, by 
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