I2O Rambles with a FisJting-Rod. 



or- six pints of Bavarian beer before bedtime. 

 Thus in his own mind he is generally a person 

 of importance ; and it is much worse to wound 

 his pride by fishing in his waters without his 

 permission, than it would be to injure his pro- 

 perty by taking dozens of his trout. Moreover, 

 he is generally somewhat toadied to by the 

 landlord of the village inn, who naturally de- 

 sires to obtain the fish which he can supply on 

 the easiest possible terms. 



The professional fisherman is no sportsman, 

 and regards any one who angles merely for the 

 pleasure of the thing as an oddity who is rather 

 to be pitied. His main object is to catch as 

 many fish as possible; and for that purpose he 

 will net his lake or river, and spear his trout, 

 without more thought for sport as such, than 

 the Yarmouth herring-fishers. Sometimes he 

 will fish with the fly or the minnow, and then 

 his lines are of the rudest kind; and he will 

 regard English tackle with vast surprise. But, 

 as a rule, angling as such is wholly out of his 

 thoughts, and not a part of his work. Yet in 

 this respect he is not more singular than the 

 hundreds of Germans who have good trout and 

 grayling fishing within easy distance of their 



