bank-owner's

Updated: June 26, 2025

For instance, I be a gamekeeper to-day, and I take a view of fish and birds according; but once on a time I was a fly-by-night young rip of a poacher, and had a very different idea about feathers and fins. "A fish be no more the bank-owner's fish than the water in the river be his water!" That's what I used to say. Because a salmon he's a sea-fish, and free as air and his own master.

Eden Phillpotts - The Torch and Other Tales