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Show THE WAY OF THE FISHERMAN It It Made Hard for Him When He Has a Big Story to Tell His Friends. "A fisherman who was worming for trout on the Ythan," says a writer In Baily's Magazine, "had Just laid his rod down to visit his sandwich box, when without warning it suddenly rose in the air and soared away like a Bleriot Biplane over Esslemont woods. "For one wild moment he thought there were visions about, but the explanation ex-planation was soon apparent. A trout had first seized the worm and had then in turn been seized and gorged by a heron. Away flapped the heron, only to find that it had captured something some-thing of unusual weight. "Still, it bravely flew toward its nest in the treetops, and the angler might never more have recovered his rod had it not got entangled In some telegraph wires with the result that the cast snapped, the heron went free fttid the rod was eventually restored to owner. ' remember telling this story to a man who before I had even got as far as the telegraph wires interrupted me with the assurance that It was a mere everyday commonplace to what had befallen a friend of his when mahseer fishing in India. "It seems that his angling friend was casting with a large spoon, and in a back cast drove it Into the ear of a tiger which had been going to spring on him from behind. Goaded by the pain, the brute sprang clean over him and Into the river, and the fisherman actually played It for an hour as It swam to and fro in midstream. "It is such stories which bring down on fishermen the unmerited reproach of being liars. "Once when I had been describing some memorable fight with one of the big fish of the past I wrote: " 'I live over those tense moments again and again.' "Did the printer so Interpret meT Not at all. What he preferred waa: " 'I lie over those tense moments again and again!' "This sort of thing Is very hard. What made it worse at the time was the fact that the friend who drew my attention to the misprint was a golfer!" |