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NOVEMBER 19, 1937.

FISHING WITH A LASSO

THE

HE vast majority of anglers have probably never tried any method but that of rod and lie for taking

would

loss sh. They

despise orthodox methods and einss with "poaching. Perhapa they

them

the editor was going, very pro-are right, but the fascination of perly, to fire me.

A fellow undergraduate of mine is doing nicely in a big drapery store in Oxford-street. Another is a dress designer. Most of the others are waiting One for their fathers to die. or two have gone on the stage. Here again the corollaries of life at Oxford prove valuable. The O.U.D.S., whatever you may think of it (and I think plenty), has been the first start for.num bers of ham actors.

The old theory that Greek and Latin sharpen up your brain for absorbing more prac- tical information later on is a

NUFFIELD neither of them can possibly pletely useless to them.

Incidentally, the most. suc- could not be more pretend that their tutorials and

lectures had the slightest effect cessful (financially) of them all myth.

True, again, I know a former on their careers. If they were is a former undergraduate of million not diplomatic they would con- my college who now holds a undergraduate who has been a college fess that it was in spite of what very lucrative position in the great success in a very big firm another they were taught that they biggest combine of cheap stores of chemists.

I wonder, by the way, what in the world despite the fact have succeeded so far.

that he read Greats, or what. Lord McGowan thinks of the ON the other hand, the

undergraduates he has taken ever it was. corollaries of univer

What of the others. Some into Imperial Chemical Indus- Mr. sity life can be valuable.

have secured Governmental jobs tries. Probably to be honest

His gift of a pounds for a new at. Oxford, and hundred thousand pounds for a site on which to build it, must make Oxford men

for poaching must be instinctive, although I have fished with rod and line in most parts of the British Isles, I have never been able to resist the temptation of trying other methods I have seen used.

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Angling one day between Cam bridge and Ely, I saw a little knot of people gather at a lock on one of the small canals, pointing excitedly inte

I saw below the water. Down pike, mollentes in the clear water, and, knowing the ways of pike, 1 like a expected him to disappear Bash of lightning at any moment. But this one stayed, and from a nearby cottage a strange fishing Im plement was produced. On the end of a stout pole-twelve feet long, was tied a length of string, 'terminating In a wire noose.

The hoose was gently lowered about a foot behind the pike's tail, AL- then silently brought forward, though I would rather have seen the pike caught by rod and line. I could' hand which brought the hose right not help admiring the steadiness of over the pike's tail and up his body without touching him.

In dead silence the noose was worked carefully up until a fraction

of a second the pole was swung up and the pike lay snapping on the

Caught on the Rise

Hard as lassolng the pike many be, Anding them in the right position, lying In midstream is even

dimeult.

more

all over the world regret Leslie Hore-Belisha was prc in Woods and Forests; others they have proved the excep bank, Miren pounds if he was an that some other fabulous sident of the Oxford Union, are coughing out their lives on tion to the rule. They have unce philanthropist had not This taught him how to debate, the Gold Coast and other in- perhaps proved not unuseful in

and proved valuable to him in salubrious spots; many are on industry. thought of this before.

half commission on the Stock But what an exception!

It is not nearly so easy as it looks. Said Lord Nuffiek, "I have his early political career. -

The Foreign Secretary be- Exchange. (And

"Are you going to send him have tried the method myself, and you know

have never managed to get the rioosa long deplored the scarcity of

round the pike. At the critical or two univeralty-trained men in high longed to one

minor what that means, particularly to Oxford ?" I asked him.

"Certainly not." was the in-moment he has always shot off in a executive posts, and I hope that literary societies when he was now.)

doubt Several are in the Inland stant retort. "He has got to flurry of water. the new college will help to at Oxford, which no bridge the Kulf between prompted him to write a rare Revenue. But don't tell me that earn his own living."

learnt about As things are to-day that academic studies and practical little book called "Places in the anything they affairs."

Sun."

economics has done them any seems a very sensible point of

view for any parent. There is, of course, a good good since. THAT gulf! 1 had my

time at Oxford, and medical school at Oxford which

IMYSELI am glad I WIEN, however, Lord Nuffield's college is what I was taught by the dons has some practical value for the and the lecturers was worth undergraduates reading medi-

But it is not until you one simple reason, I learnt or in active working order things exactly nothing to me in after cine.

have "walked the hospitals" like to think that I learnt how should be different.

Whether or not the new col- life.

to entertain my guests at lunch

lege will be an answer to these It simply meant that other that you begin to be useful.

or dinner.

True, I edited the Isis. But criticisms will depend upon the youths of my age had a three years' start of me because

poses it seems to me it was in spite of that that I extent to which it is able to they went into business direct- that Oxford is more than use- went on to the Daily Express as resist the lofty influence of the ly after leaving school. less. I can look round at dozens a cub reporter for three months. older colleges and their mag

It also meant that whereas I

my contemporaries to-day And it was probably because of netie tradition of superiority. had thought a five-pound note a and realise that what they it that I was forced to resign very great deal of money at my wern taught has been public school, it seemed thing

to me when I was living at the. rate of four hundred pounds a year as an undergraduate.

It is one of the tragedies of! life that at the present minute) there are scores of youths of twenty and twenty-one who until six months ago were in at

of paradise

heavy fool's parental allowances, and who! now find that they are lucky to get a job at a hundred pounds

a year,

Most employers will agree that they are not worth even that. They have acquired rich habits, and an aversion from work, without any respon. sibility.

OOK at the very few men who were with me at Oxford from 1919 to 1921 and have since made a Mr. success of themselves. Hore-Belisha, the Secretary of

of

pur- FOR commercial

Why

went to Oxford, for

com- the day before I suspected that Charles Graves

are

such cats?

OMEN

women

it's because they're jealous says the MOTHER OF FOUR

do not were

well on the whole.

This method of lassoing a fish is

easy compared to that once used by Mr. J. Ellison, the great American expert. Using a

he is credited with lossoins no lb. tout

as it rose to take u Oyi

I was taught to tickle trout by a boy who must be one of the greatest

experts in this method of poaching in the world. His skill in Anding

uncanny. On one occasion I now and catching the trout was almost him take 22 brook trout in less than an hour. His tkill came from long practice, and he knew every stone of the small stream which, in those dayn at any rate, was so remote that I never saw an angler on it. It s not hard to catch the trout if you are reasonably patient. Remember that they always le pointing up- stream, and get a good grip behled the gills.

I caught the Brsi trout I touched," and felt as proud when I laid him on the bank ns when I had caught my "first" trout"on"a"fly. On his first finger my mentor had a terrible scar, the result of trying to ckle a rat in a hole in the bank. He had not known there was a rat there, 'but his experience made me a id the holes and stones near the side of the river,

With Pointed Stick

T have tried One or two 1M- orthodox methods of sea fishing. On some beaches best fishing rod is pointed silck. Low water at a spring tide uncovers many rocks, and in the nooks and crannies are to be found lobsters and. congers. | Ed

Edible crabs do not come so close

enjoy the wood they weren't having the luxuries ing a genuine ecmpliment, because 1 inshore. The conger can be driven

they'd been used to.

She

although I never miss an opportunity of pay-

like to see people happy, and it's the woman: ille things that please.

She became a different fortune of other

the hard triumphant look went We talked about the children, who from her eyes, her face grow softer were all asleep in the rain over-

is so ageing, head. I said I wasn't State for War, and Mr..Eden,women.

younger. Envy

patient as were

shook hands with me firmly I ought to be, but I i They envy and begrudge their and the Foreign Secretary,

always meant to both my contemporaries, yet neighbours their new car, new and said, "I'll give you a ring and be better the next day. And 1. told we'll have ten together and a nice them what I do to remind myself of furniture or new clothes.

long chat."

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She didn't ring me up, of course. Every day I wear, no matter what werk 'n doing, a pearl brad neck- is ill, or her husband meets with but she meant well at the time. MILK OF MAGNESIA

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But when the womun next door

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out with the stick, to be subsequent- ly dispatched as best you can; or he may be caught by lushing a large stick, making a gaff, with which he is hauled from his lair. The strength of a good-sized conger almost incredible. All your strength may be insufficient to win the tug- o'-war that develops with your In- visible quarry.

Neur Land's End is a cove that to have been made for scems anglers. A ridge of rocks run out to 20 feet, and here the mackerel at HE most breathless piece the day, I cross the earrings on the

certain times of the year come in of caltiness I've ever ex- little table by my bed and squiggle with the tide. On orthodox rod and perienced

nannie I the necklace into a snake.

line you may entch two or three in Then when I've switched off the employed years ago. Some monthy

an evening. The "locals" have a TVE never boasted about any before Clive was born 3. had. my light I weep a little and think miser-

much deadlier method. A. length of rood things that have photograph taken with Alan on my ably dint I don't deserve to have string is tied to the end of a 15-foot Tour such beautiful, intelligent, hea-bamboo and a hook balted with a come my way because I've always inp.

"I've never had the slightest claims venly children, and I will be patient, strip of mackerel attached. This is had the uneasy feeling that what's here, to-day will be gone to-morrow, lo beauty: my friends call me plea- kind, jally, and understanding. And simply dropped into the water with- Yet in good times, when signs of sant-looking and the others say my at 5 am. I am fighting and scream- out weights or float and is moved by

the currents, up and down. prosperity in the home couldn't be face is full of character.

However, this photograph was in- concealed, 1 have seen woman look

spired: If revealed a radiant woman Down to earth Again at me with hatred.

Not long ago I was coming out looking

THE artist dented

his of a cinema with Leslie and Alan Everybody who saw it went

throht. "Well," he sald, For the when I met a woman who used to raptures over it: even my mother-

She was in-law approved, to me.

anybody woke me live next door

up al Ave rellef of

When this nannie came to me 1 o'clock in the morning I should in- chafing, wearing a good fur coat and told

She cross my earrings like lightning, un- dressing for me proudly that her son was away showed her the photograph.

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man, a few years older than I. She to the nursery and give them all a Irriistians mastera marvelled at his tailness.

Especially And his clothes! Two new rulls hadn't married, but she said she'd thrashing."

We all laughed with relief, be- useful in every term six pairs of new socks had plenty of chances,

I waited expectantly and after a cause I'd been getting too sentimen- and float. the care ofthey simply wouldn't allow darned

flatly, "You tnl. 1 took them up to the night Infants.

socks two pairs of white flannels long ailence she said

show your gums a lot when you smile, hursery: they had never seen "four I have and two pairs of grey.

She said that the servant prob- don't you?" Puss, puss,

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ACROSS 1 A striking weapon of old sug- gests there is a strike of some of the employes (12)

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9 This port makes a net warp (7) 12 A part of this part of a tree is enough to cover one's head (4) 13 "Love looks not with the eyes .but with the mind; and there- fore is wing'd-painted blind" (Midsummer Night's Dream") 14 A measure of speed (4) 17 Describes a freezing man whom you thaw by your fire only to be robbed by him (7)

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They have an uncanny knack of detecting a bite, after which the fish Is almply heaved on to the rocks. I taken in a have seen à hundred couple of hours In this way, and when there are a dozen anglers, the sport can be fast and furious, with

n cor (5) ledges of rock. For some reason this 26 Has this make of car a crude apparatus is much more effee-

manding appearance? (4) tive than the finest sea-rod, inc, 29 Horizon (?),

19 No, this painter may not be of

the apparent material (7) 22 Character in the Tempest (7) 24. Book of the O.T. (4)

all the was a thin-lipped, good-looking wo- enake my pearl bends and rush along i mackerel jumping alt over the little 23 An idiotle sort of fellow to start

lest able to manage with two Tried to please Her

and daily woman. She makis wound up with: "Lesile doesn't grow

went, does he? And Alan Sen't as

plump as he used to be, is ho?"

evening

THE other

unexpected visitors

children nil sleeping in one room.

The artist sald that Baby Clive had a very well-shaped head, which of course pleased me immensely. I two once had my palm read, and the pal- ar-imist said that one of my children rived, an artist and his wife. I was would become famous, bringing I don't know which child is des- amartly dressed and tined to live this glorious future, as I couldn't afford to keep malda looked as young as she did six years but Leelle, the eldest, says he thinks any longer, and did all my own ngo, when I last saw her. I told her that Clive and Max are about the

toughest kids round here. work. And I thought the children so nad she was pleased.

I could have screamed with rege, looking and feeling about a hundred honour to himself and to us. but I said meekly that the servant years old. "problem didn't worry me any more

She was

seen

Ash caught by dyoumlling, but it is not a very sporting method, for young and old are destroyed allke. Men have told me that trout are sometimes burns by "poached" in Scottish striking the rock under which they and thus stunning them. I have are sheltering with a heavy hammer tried the method, but the shock I have given the fish has never been more than enough to make him leave the neighbourhood in a hurry.

Sinfer L. Robertson

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