136 ANGLING LITERATURE IN 



called c The Water-Looking Glass* (Water- Spiegel) in which 

 an angler of the country is whimsically depicted in many 

 encounters with fish, and is at last made to ride over the 

 Schelde on the back of a huge salmon. He obtains a wife 

 by the singular exploit. Since the game laws (including 

 those relative to angling) have been rendered more stringent 

 in Trance of late years, several dramatic pieces have alluded 

 to the art of fishing. There is no small portion of wit in 

 many of these light productions. One of these called 

 ( The Naiad of the Stream,' had a run of fifty nights in 

 succession, at one of the minor theatres of Paris, in the 

 early days of Louis Phillip e. 



In 1839, we have the drama of Izaak Walton, performed 

 at the Royal Olympic, in London. It is a piece in four 

 parts. Old Izaak is represented as having a ward, Anne 

 Evelyn, who, to carry out her love plans, becomes dis- 

 guised as a milk-maid. In one part of the drama he says 

 to this young girl, " Come, love ! I have but a short night 

 before me ; for to-morrow's sun must rise on me at 

 Tottenham Cross. You know the gallant fisher's song: 



* In a morning up we rise, 

 Ere Aurora's peeping, 

 Brink a cup to wash our eyes, 

 Leave the sluggard sleeping ! ' 



Come. Peace, and good night to all." 



The morning comes, he sets out with his rod, and 

 meets a parcel of gipsies, who sing the following glee : 



"Bright shines the sun play gipsies, play, 

 Here's scraps enough to serve to-day j 



