Tall Tales
Fishermen, as everyone knows, are prone to a little arm-stretching, and if they talk more of the big fish they have almost caught it is perhaps because the, water tends to magnify those that escape. A trout hovering in a pool can look like a big fish until it is brought to the net, and then it often proves to be half the size it was first thought to be. I have been promised a kind of rule in use in America to go with another device already in my possession called, in an unin- hibited American way, the Fisherman's Deliar. The Dcliar is for the weighing and measuring of catches. It does so accurately, for it consists of a spring balance and a twenty-four inch tape. The rule, however, is a more deadly implement. I am told that it has a contraction scale whereby a fish that might be thought to be only ten inches is proved to be nearer fifteen.
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