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fishing. Probably no one would care to go so 

 far as the Argen solely for the sake of the 

 angling ; but whoever wished to see something 

 of Germany, and especially of the most flour- 

 ishing kind of peasant proprietorship, or desired 

 to have a few days' trouting during some part 

 of a summer holiday, might certainly have 

 many a pleasant hour on its banks. He would 

 have the water almost entirely to himself. I 

 never saw a single angler the country-folk are 

 far too busy with their daily toil to trouble 

 aboiit fishing ; and the river holds abundance of 

 fish. My first day's fishing shows what may 

 be done under very favourable circumstances ; 

 the others, that even in brighter weather, with 

 clear water, fish may also be taken. 



