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traveller. Even if both companions do not 

 actually possess some common taste, such as 

 painting, still sketching and fishing, or fishing 

 and walking, or simply fishing and quiet trav- 

 elling, can well be combined, provided each 

 possesses a fair share of that cardinal virtue 

 of all travellers forbearance. Thus, with a 

 moderate capability of walking, nothing need 

 prevent a brother and a sister, or a husband 

 and a wife, from pleasantly enjoying a tour 

 which shall include angling. 



Neither does a fishing tour, generally speak- 

 ing, add much either to the expenses of the 

 journey or to the amount of the necessary im- 

 pedimenta. In places where some kind of 

 demand for the fishing has been created, a 

 small fee may be charged. Thus at Ischl, for 

 instance, in the Austrian Tyrol, which has 

 been rendered rather a fashionable place among 

 Southern Germans, owing to the partiality with 

 which it is regarded by the Austrian Court, 

 a charge of a gulden a-day is made for fishing 

 in the river Traun ; but, on the other hand, you 

 may find plenty of places both in Germany 

 and France where the fishing is equally good 

 and quite free though two shillings a-day for 



