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spears of the professional fisherman. Angling 

 as a sport is really ignored on the Continent, 

 though here and there in France an amateur 

 de la peche may be found. In France, the fact 

 that the right of fishing in a stream belongs to 

 the riparian owners, and that they are usually 

 legion, is a great bar to any general letting or 

 tenancy of the fishing. But in Germany, either 

 the State, or the commune of some village or 

 town, or some great proprietor, nearly always 

 owns the right of fishing, and consequently 

 there is no difficulty in finding large stretches 

 of water under the ownership of one man. 

 Amateurs there are, broadly speaking, none ; so 

 the professional fisherman has it all his own 

 way, and works his will with many charm- 

 ing rivers and lakes. How much the epicures 

 of large towns like Munich or Milan owe to 

 him is scarcely thoroughly known ; but as a 

 matter of fact, live trout are sent scores of 

 miles from some mountain-lake to appear on 

 the table in the fashionable restaurant of the 

 capital of a kingdom. Thus the lake-trout in 

 the little Vilsalper See, far up in the Bavarian 

 Alps, are despatched to Kempteu and Munich; 

 and many other lakes and rivers on the northern 



