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Beauty to make you cry

LAURENCE CATLOW, A PASSIONATE SHOOTER AND ANGLER FOR MORE THAN 40 YEARS, HAS WRITTEN FIVE BOOKS ABOUT SPORT WITH ROD AND GUN. HIS NOTEBOOK RUNS IN THE FIRST ISSUE OF EVERY MONTH.

And so it goes on and my hair gets longer every day and. Meanwhile, I find solace in the beauty of High Park, in the company of two spaniels, in telephone contact with friends and family and in the inestimable comfort that comes every evening from two glasses of fino sherry and half a bottle of red wine.

“Too much”, I can hear some of you saying, disapprovingly. “Essential,” say I, scarcely believing

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