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IX. 



ON FISHING TOURS ABROAD. 1 



TT is a curious delusion, especially among 

 * writers of guide-books, that when an Eng- 

 lishman crosses the Channel and takes up his 

 abode as a traveller in a strange country, he 

 thereupon necessarily ceases to care for that 

 truly English pastime angling. The sports- 

 man is expected to become a connoisseur of 

 architecture, to delight in nothing but sweet 

 or majestic landscapes, or to feel unwonted 

 pleasure in a continual series of mountain 

 walks. That some such delusion must exist, 

 is shown by the persistent manner in which 

 hundreds of persons who at home are ardent 

 fishermen, and who gladly take a holiday in 



1 Reprinted, with additions, by permission from the 

 ' Pall Mall Gazette.' 



