468 CHINESE FISHING 



glided down stream, quietly drove the lower reaches, and 

 shepherded the fishes towards our angler's bait. 



Like his Chinese brother, the British angler, when he goes 

 a-fishing, carries a flask : unlike him, he does not, and cannot, 

 unless he have the grand accommodation of a Loch Leven 

 boatman thirty years ago, " drink and fish by equal turns." 

 Even if the difficulty of equal drinking turn by turn on the 

 part of the sportsman and sprite be overcome, it is doubtful 

 whether a British angler, however adaptive and alert to learn, 

 can in these days ensure a full creel by adopting Hsii's tip, 

 having regard to the scanty stock and prohibitive price of 

 whisky. Whether in the near or even far future the recipe 

 can be thoroughly tested lies on the niggard lap of the Board 

 of Control. 



