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return home with my wife, leaving my brother 

 to try a cast or two. He secured in an hour 

 only three small trout. Having seen my wife 

 safely secured from the rain in the hotel, I was 

 quickly off to the ground of the morning, not 

 ten minutes' walk from the inn. During an 

 hour's fishing alone, a couple of small trout 

 and a half-pound grayling rewarded me for the 

 time spent in a biting east wind and down- 

 pour of rain. But it does not seem an undue 

 conclusion to draw from such a leisurely day's 

 sport, that two rods on a favourable day, work- 

 ing well from " morn to dewy eve," could come 

 home with a heavy basket of good grayling. 

 A visit to the river early on the following 

 morning, with the rain still pouring down after 

 a fourteen hours' descent, showed it thick and 

 rapidly rising, so that there was no chance of 

 fishing that day, and time would not permit 

 the third day to be spent in Eeutte. 



But the place is very accessible, either by 

 way of the railway to Kempten, and thence 

 via Fussen by coach or carriage, or else by way 

 of Innsbruck from the south-east. So we left 

 somewhat reluctantly, with decidedly expressed 

 hopes that on some other autumn holiday we 



