In article .com,
fishin' henry wrote:

I've put up several out of print fly-fishing classics:
How to tie Salmon Flies by Captain Hale
and
Fly Fishing by Sir Edward Grey

at

www.fishingclassics.com

I'll be adding several more titles each month.

Check it out and let me know your thoughts.

- Henry

Many thanks for this terrific service. I have 'Dry Fly Fishing' in the
Haddon Hall edition, but I'd never dare take it to the river. In
season, I make the same journey as Grey did

The earliest trains leave Waterloo, the usual place of departure for
the Itchen or Test, either at or just before six o'clock in the
morning. To leave London it is possible once a week, even after late
hours, to get up in time for these early trains, and if you have no
luggage (and you need have none if you go to the same place week after
week), you will not find it difficult to get to the station. There are
places where hansoms can be found even at these hours of the morning;
they are not numerous, and they seem quite different from the hansoms
that are abroad at more lively hours, but they can be found if you will
look for them at certain places. The best plan, how-ever, is to live
within a walk of Waterloo, and as you cross the river in the early
summer morning, you may feel more reconciled to London than at any
other time, and understand Wordsworth's tribute to the sight from
Westminster Bridge. I pass over the scene at Waterloo station, which at
this hour is very different from the usual one, and the journey, on
which perhaps one sleeps a little, though I have found that, while it
is very easy to sleep sitting up in the late hours of the evening, it
is necessary to lie down, if one wishes to sleep in the early hours of
the morning. At some time between eight and nine o'clock, you step out
of the train, and are in a few minutes among all the long-desired
things. Every sense is alert and every scent and everything seen or
heard is noted with delight. You are grateful for the grass on which
you walk, even for the soft country dust about your feet.

I don't leave as early as he did, even though I'm not running the first
wrold war, as he was, but I do get the train from Waterloo to
Winchester. Then I cycle, rather than walk, the couple of miles to a
stretch of the river just above where he fished. It can't have changed
much.

Next time I'll take the vital two chapters with me on the Palm Pilot so
I can read it by the riverside.

Thanks again

Lazarus