1 88 WHAT I HAVE SEEN WHILE FISHING 



price before you make a start, and to beware of 

 appearing as if you had the wealth of all the 

 Indies. 



Remember when King George I. was travelling 

 incognito on the Continent, and wished to do so 

 cheaply, he had to stop at an inn while they 

 changed horses. He spent the time in having tea 

 and eggs. When paying the bill he found that 

 the eggs were charged for at the rate of twenty 

 marks apiece. 



"What! are eggs so scarce here, then?" he 

 asked the landlord. 



" No, sire ; but kings are." 



It aids you much to know exactly what you 

 want, to ask for it plainly, and sometimes, if 

 occasion needs it, to boldly state your price. 



I fear I am a bad adviser of how to proceed 

 cheaply. Having seen, approved and paid my bill, 

 I crumple it in my hand and say good-bye to it 

 quickly. 



To each of my two men at Burtonport I gave 

 five shillings per day, which included the use of 

 their boat, and the hotel charged eight shillings the 

 day or fifty for a week. I thought these charges 

 reasonable. You can get a boat and man for much 

 less than half ten shillings, but my desire for 

 roughish water, which helps the fish to feed during 

 the glare of a summer day, calls for two men, and, 

 as I am never tired, they have to work long hours, 

 and thereby fully earn their pay. 



