Angling sketches . - increase inweight, let us hope not in wisdom, like thecuriously hea\y and sh\- fish mentioned in thebeginning of this 8i LOCH LEVEN I HAD a friend once, an angler, who in winter wasfond of another sport. He liked to cast his louisinto the green baize pond at Monte Carlo, and,on the whole, he \\as generally broken. Heseldom landed the golden fish of the old mansdream in Theocritus. When the croupier hadgaffed all his monej he would repent and say, Now, that would have kept me at Loch Levenfor a fortnight. One used to wonder whether afortnight of Loch Leven was worth
Angling sketches . - increase inweight, let us hope not in wisdom, like thecuriously hea\y and sh\- fish mentioned in thebeginning of this 8i LOCH LEVEN I HAD a friend once, an angler, who in winter wasfond of another sport. He liked to cast his louisinto the green baize pond at Monte Carlo, and,on the whole, he \\as generally broken. Heseldom landed the golden fish of the old mansdream in Theocritus. When the croupier hadgaffed all his monej he would repent and say, Now, that would have kept me at Loch Levenfor a fortnight. One used to wonder whether afortnight of Loch Leven was worth an afternoonof the pleasure of losing at Monte Carlo. Theloch has a name for being cockneyfied, beset bywhole fleets of competitive anglers from variousangling clubs in Scotland. That men shouldcompetitively angle shows, indeed, a great wantof true angling sentiment. To fish in a crowdis odious, to work hard for prizes of flasks and G 82 ANGLIXG SKETCHES creels and fly-books is to mistake the true mean-ing of the pastime. However, in this crowdedage men are so constituted that they like to turna contemplative exercise into a kind of BankHo
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