With a number of sparse brown hackles hooked in his hat band, His Grace the Duke of Devonshire, onetime (1916-21) Governor General of Canada, better known as the father-in-law of Adele Astaire, sat alone in a skiff on Blackwater River, Irish Free State, last week, fishing. Among the 186,000 acres in various parts of the British Isles that he owns is that part of the river, Lismore Castle high above it, and the fishing rights. It is reported that His Grace was enjoying himself mightily, listening to the whine of the reel, the swish...
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