CHAPTER XVII.
Washing day .-- Fish and fishers .-- On the art of angling .-- A conscientious fly-fisher .-- A fishy story.
[Picture: Washing line] We stayed two days at Streatley, and got our clothes washed.

We had tried washing them ourselves, in the river, under George's superintendence, and it had been a failure.

Indeed, it had been more than a failure, because we were worse off after we had washed our clothes than we were before.

Before we had washed them, they had been very, very dirty, it is true; but they were just wearable.

_After_ we had washed them--well, the river between Reading and Henley was much cleaner, after we had washed our clothes in it, than it was before.