![]() ![]() He had been seduced by the sight of her deft back cast and had only got around to discovering the other pleasures of her anatomy after they were married. Pupils at the Lochdubh School of Casting: Salmon and Trout Fishing. He had sandy, wispy hair and rather prominent pale blue eyes. John Cartwright was small, thin, wiry, and nervous. She looked at her husband with affection. We’ve been running this fishing school for three years and haven’t had a ‘Don’t chatter,’ said his wife, Heather, placidly. People who travel up here to the wilds of Scotland expect to be instructed by some great hairy Rob Roy, making jokes about saxpence and saying it’s aīraw bricht moonlicht nicht and lang may your lum reek and ghastly things like that.’ ‘I hate the start of the week,’ said John Cartwright fretfully. Angling: incessant expectation, and perpetual disappointment. ![]()
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