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BY TIDELESS SEAS 



Two Memories Warnemiinde and Leghorn A Deserted 

 Pier River and Sea Together A German 4 f University Ros- 

 tock The Warnow Tyranny of- Professional Fishermen 

 An Expedition after Pike Fellow Students The Season at 

 a Baltic Watering Place Easy Fishing A Fillet of Bream 

 A Fight with an Octopus Grey Mullet at Last A Night 

 with Dynamite Bombs A Private Mullet Stew Mr. Sher- 

 ingham's Bridge-fever Spearing Muraenas by Torchlight 

 A Stroke of Luck at Naples. 



As I idly turn the leaves of those old angling 

 diaries of ninety and ninety-one, two widely 

 different pictures come vividly before me. In 

 the first, I am on a pier, not unlike that at Little- 

 hampton, past which a river also runs swiftly to 

 the sea. But this river flows north, and as we 

 gaze out to sea towards the ending of the day, 

 the sun is setting on our left, behind Denmark. 

 The gentle swell of waves that roll between the 

 piers rocks my painted float, yet when this goes 

 boring under water it is to the pull of a river-bream 

 or perch. The gutteral flow of German falls not 

 too harshly on the accustomed ear, and each time 

 my slender rod bends in the fray ejaculations of 

 ' Wunderbar f " " Donnerwetter nock mal ! " break 

 from those who stand around, some mere specta- 

 tors, others vainly wooing with the coarsest of 



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