Excerpt from Trout Fishing Memories and Morals
The framework of this book was put together in the year 1915, the building of it being to a great extent a distraction from the stresses of war. For various reasons the book could not be completed till last year, when many changes had come about. So speedily, however, do things move nowadays that it now goes out into a world which is vastly different, not only from the world of 1915, but even from the world of a few months ago, and I am in some doubt whether it should not have contained an appendix of trout-fishing economics - the wonderful prices achieved by split-cane rods, the kaleidoscopic changes in the ownership of lands and the waters thereof, the ridiculous new position of sixpence, the inadequate size of fishing inns, the dearth of trout for restocking, and so on.
But I have decided that worthy handling of some of these interesting phenomena is beyond me, while others will receive adjustment at the hands of time and so do not call for special consideration. Hence I add no appendix.
The world, by the signs of the day, is turning, or being turned, upside down, and in a few years we may all be at the Antipodes of our former states, as old Sir Thomas Browne might have said. But it is some comfort to me that the real Antipodes are now very well furnished with trout.
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