This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... recollections of A sportsman. In The First Frost. j am really beginning to believe that there is such a thing in this world of disappointment as luck. My good friend "Red Spinner" has told me for many years past he considered me to be one of the luckiest men he knew. He has often and often enumerated ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1895 edition. Excerpt: ... recollections of A sportsman. In The First Frost. j am really beginning to believe that there is such a thing in this world of disappointment as luck. My good friend "Red Spinner" has told me for many years past he considered me to be one of the luckiest men he knew. He has often and often enumerated a long list of circumstances which have contributed to that belief, but he always winds up by saying, "and your angling luck is perfectly exasperating." What has somewhat converted me to his way of thinking is the series of adverse circumstances which always attend him when he goes a-fishing. If, for instance, he journeys from London to Yorkshire for a turn at the grayling, as soon as ever he sets foot in the county the heavens open and a flood is a certainty. When he goes to the Tweed to wage war against the salmon, there is usually only one day out of six that he can fish at all, on account of high waters, or else there E is no water whatever to speak of for six days, and as he leaves in the evening of the sixth day it begins to rain in that persistent manner which heralds a flood on the Monday; and lastly, when I arranged to run down into Hampshire to join him and friend Halford, fate once more intervened, and prevented him from accompanying us by laying him up by the heels with a severe attack of cold. Now, on the other hand, it had really seemed that year as though I could not go wrong, at all events as regards fishing; whenever I had selected a day, however long beforehand, it was "a right 'un," and the incidents which form the subject of this article have at length compelled me to come to the conclusion that my friend is correct in what he says. To commence, as the children say, at the beginning, I had no intention of going grayling...
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