Mynheer Vandunk. 57 



Angler's Song Book, etc., must always 

 secure for him a place in the affections of 

 those he calls "Piscatorians." At p. 109 

 of his Angling Literature he says : " The 

 earliest caricatures of the angler we have 

 seen bear the date 1603. One represents 

 a Dutch amateur, evidently of some public 

 notoriety, sitting like a lubberly clodpole, 

 with the most bewildering expression of 

 face, pulling a prodigious large salmon at 

 the foot of a weir ; in another print figures 

 a fisher weeping for the loss of a part of 

 his rod and tackle. Underneath the print 

 are some verses, which may be paraphrased 

 thus : 



" 'Mynherr Vandunk, though he never got drunk, 

 Sipp'd brandy and angled gaily ; 

 And he quenched his thirst with two quarts 



of the first, 



Hooking lots of fine salmon daily : 

 Singing, " Oh that a fisherman's draught could 



be 

 As deep as the rolling Zuyder Zee ! " 



" ' Water well mixed with spirit good store, 

 No fisherman thinks of scorning : 

 But of water alone he drinks no more 

 Than to help him to bring his fish on shore 

 Upon the market-stall in the morning. 

 For a fishing Dutchman's draught should be 

 As deep as the rolling Zuyder Zee.' " 



If this is one of Blakey's "quotations 

 incorrectly given, and of so-called original 



