BRUKENAU FISHING. 2G7 



their occupation (although paid in the interim) evidently 

 regarded us with anything but benevolent feelings. 



A week of this amusement, during which time I am afraid 

 to say how many trout and grayling we caught, was enough, 

 for the extreme facility of the sport almost took away its 

 interest. I tried some of the most likely places, such as the 

 deep holes and weirs, with both worm and minnow, and 

 killed several large fish. The finest (which I sent to the 

 royal cuisine) weighed five pounds and a half, and was a 

 round, well-fed, beautiful fish. 



Trout-fishing, however, was not the only diversion this 

 delightful residence afforded. Some description of chasse is 

 always going on in Germany, and although midsummer, yet 

 stag and roedeer were occasionally hunted and shot. We 

 were invited to accompany the king's aides-de-camp in many 

 very pleasant battues, at which several fine stags, roebuck, 

 and foxes were killed. I must own that it was a long time 

 before I could conquer my reluctance to fire at the latter 

 animal, but as a fox in a Bavarian forest and a fox in a 

 Leicestershire cover are two totally different things, or 

 rather, placed in different circumstances, I finished by 

 " doing in Turkey as the Turkeys do." 



His Majesty King Louis never joined any of these shoot- 

 ing parties, but devoted his time almost exclusively to the 

 society of the ladies. He was particularly partial to that of 

 English girls, several of whom, who were then staying at the 

 place, considered, no doubt, the royal attentions as a great 

 feather in their caps. Invitations were daily issued by the 

 chamberlain, and a train of open carriages was always in 

 attendance at the palace, for the purpose of conveying a 

 large party to some pic-nic orfete champetre, where the king 

 always -acted as Master of the Ceremonies. 



Bom ping games were those most in vogue, and it was no 

 uncommon spectacle to observe, in some glade of the forest, 



