Aug. 15, 1908.] 
oon began to give in, and gingerly I drew him 
andwards, till I had his head and gills out of 
ater, resting on a gently shelving shore of 
sand. But I had no native with me to assist in 
;he landing, so I stood helpless, looking at the 
1 fish, the fish looking at me. If I tried to drag 
dim along the sand into security, I feared my 
tackle would give; for I was fishing with a cast 
'of double gut and not with gimp; if I put down 
; my rod in order to seize him with my hands, I 
feared he might shake himself free, as fish will 
sometimes when the line is slack. 
It would break my heart to lose him now; 
what was I to do? 
L Twenty yards away a boy of fourteen or so 
was washing clothes, and I shouted to him 
fiercely to come to my assistance; he came 
delicately, like Agag, and seemed to be nervous. 
Forgetting all politeness in my excitement, I 
angrily ordered him to seize the fish; he made 
ja gesture of refusal; the air became blue with 
' strong language as I bade him take my rod. 
The boy burst into floods of tears and ran 
away as hard as he could; and the mahseer re¬ 
garded me placidly. But help was coming. 
On the further bank I saw small in the distance, 
a lean, naked man, carrying one of those in¬ 
flated bullock hides of a dead-pig-like appear¬ 
ance, upon which Punjab fishermen and rafts¬ 
men float about, plying their trade. I hailed 
him as the castaway sailor hails a sail; he heard 
me and bore down toward me on the swift cur¬ 
rent; his attitude as he sprawled across his dead 
pig was at once undignified and ridiculous, but I 
j loved him. In a minute or two he arrived, and 
wading up behind the fish, he took him behind 
the gills and safely landed him. I tried in vain 
to find the Hindustani for “a thousand thanks,” 
so I patted his bare back and said, “Accha 
admi.” The obliging fellow carried the fish 
back to the bungalow for me, and I wanted to 
f give him two rupees, but my wife said she 
thought that four annas was quite enough. 
The servants came crowding round, telling 
each other it was a “bahut bura machli,” but 
when I put him on the scale he only weighed 
j 8)4 pounds. 
The next morning I was out again on the 
same spot, and—really fishing was very easy 
i after all—about my third cast I was into a fish. 
Taught by experience I had brought the syce 
j out with me this time, and when I had drawn 
the fish (he was not so large as yesterday’s 
catch) close to the shore, I told the syce to go 
in and land him. I emphatically told him to 
take the fish behind the gills, but, to my horror 
and rage, my horsey friend cheerfully proceeded 
to kick' and dribble him out of the water just 
i as an association player kicks and dribbles a 
1 football! However, he got the fish, a 5-pounder, 
! safely to shore, so I refrained from beating him. 
I had no more luck after that and the next 
place I recall in connection with fishing is a 
j lovely village in Kashmir, some ten or twelve 
| miles from Atchibul, where, fishing with a worm 
■ toward the end of June, I had some rather 
' pretty sport with nice sized snow trout. 
Then the beautiful November weather found 
! me on the banks of the Kischengunga river at a 
i place called Mozufferabad near Domel. There 
j in delightful, mellow sunshine, I fished with 
atta near the bridge. I caught four fish the 
first afternoon who fought so vigorously that 
f my chokra and I assured each other as I played 
i each fish, that this one was a io-pounder at 
least; but, on weighing them, I found that the 
biggest was only 2)4 pounds. I think they were. 
! chiroo. In the month of May, fishing with a 
| worm, I caught all sorts of weird fish of incon¬ 
siderable size in some pools, the remnants of a 
; flood, I suppose, near the Sutlej, about five 
miles from Ludhiana. 
1 Some of these fish had spikes near the gills 
that cut like razors; others were spotted with 
; eyes like the eyes of a peacock’s tail, and one 
! was as nearly as possible an eel as he could be 
' without actually being one. On the whole they 
! reminded me rather of pictures in “Alice in 
| Wonderland” these fishes of the Ludhiana 
I pools. 
I am still confident I shall catch a good fish 
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