Lang, Andrew, Burn-Murdoch, W. G. (Illus.) · Longmans, Green and Co. (London) · leaf 31
14 ANGLING SKETCHES How well one remembers deserting the gardener, and already appreciating the joys of having no gillie nor attendant, of being ¢ alone with ourselves and the goddess of fishing’! I cast away as well as I could, and presently jerked a trout, a tiny one, high up in the air out of… … manlike behaviour, and the disappointing, nay, heart-breaking, occurrence. Was the trout not morally caught, was there no way of getting him to see this and behave accordingly? The gardener feared there was none. Meanwhile he sat on the bank and angled in a pool. ‘ Try my rod,’ he said, and, as…
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