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costume, with a good specimen of the chamois beard in his hat) on 

 ground belonging to the Styrian preserve I have repeatedly spoken of. 

 It was one of the largest stags killed in that neighbourhood for some 

 years, and Prince August Coburg, whose very extensive forest 

 marched with our much smaller one, and who annually expends 

 large sums upon the feeding of his deer, had killed nothing like it 

 for a number of years. The head keeper, Kals by name, is a noted 

 tackier of poachers, and so far his pluck has always come out 

 victorious, but I do not think I would care to insure his life as an 

 ordinary " risk." 



As to trout-fishing in Austria, sport for which that country is 

 occasionally visited with good results by Englishmen, the following- 

 general remarks by a non-fisherman mav be found to 

 Trout. 



contain a few useful hints. Most of the trout and gray- 

 ling water is in private hands ; and it is not preserved for sport with 

 the fly-rod, but rather for trade purposes. In fact, many a capital 

 stream is being ruined by over-fishing with nets. Trout and grayling, 

 for some reason or other, are considered great delicacies by the 

 numerous tourists who spend their summer holidays in the alpine 

 valleys, where, as a rule, the best water and the gamest fish are to 

 be found. For this reason, trout are expensive fare, for which one 

 is often charged as much as y. and 4^-. per lb., and trout water 

 containing a plentiful supply of fish is therefore a valuable asset. 

 The sport of fishing is, however, not in demand, and, provided one 

 does not retain the fish oneself, but promises to turn them over to 

 the owner, who in most cases is an hotel-keeper, the right of fishing 

 is easily obtained, and either not charged for at all, or let at a very 



