Ramble in tJie Salzkammergut and Tyrol. 1 5 



cows, belonging to the neighbouring hamlet of 

 Graun, with tinkling bells, were feeding. But 

 it was low and clear ; I scarcely hoped for 

 sport ; but to overcome difficulties is not the 

 least of an angler's pleasures. Then my rod 

 came to grief ; it had to be temporarily patched 

 up, and the sun grew hotter. But with a lit- 

 tle blue dun fly and fine casting-line, and a 

 good deal of manoeuvring about the banks, I 

 was not yet without hopes of sport. Soon a 

 nice fish came up, looked at the fly, and went 

 off again ; then a little fellow inspected it ; 

 and at last came one with a rush, and the blue 

 dun had not been in vain. The banks were 

 very high, and there was some difficulty in 

 bringing safely out of the water a grayling 

 of three-quarters of a pound. Another com- 

 pleted the morning's total ; but I lost quite 

 deservedly, for he was treated too roughly a 

 fine fish, in the best pool in the stream ; and 

 another or two ought perhaps to have been 

 taken, but catching soft-mouthed fish like gray- 

 ling with very small flies is delicate sport. 

 The heat at last grew too much for me, and I 

 stopped fishing shortly before twelve o'clock. 

 In the afternoon I borrowed both the old boat 



