SPAIN, FEANCE AND POETUGAL 



ing ; classing all those who would conserve the fisheries as ' aristo- 

 crats, millionaires, etc.' To defeat this, France will have to- 

 educate the people as to the value of sport to a nation ; but 

 more important, the educated men, the aristocracy of France^ 

 should enter politics and curb the ignorant. Then every river 

 in France would be a part of the national income, and a valuable 

 asset to the State and people. 



Many of the French rivers are delightful, and those between 

 Brest and St. Malo are mostly free. In Brittany the angler will 

 find fair trout fishing near Guinzamp, Lannion, Huelgoat, St. 

 Nicolas du Pelem, Pontrient. Sea angling is good at St. Malo, 

 pollock, conger, bass, particularly at the mouth of the Eance,, 

 plaice, bream, and nearly aU the fishes common in English waters. 



If one would see the real sea anglers of France, he should go to 

 Boulogne, whose fisherfolk eulogized the town in the famous 

 lines : 



' Bright jewel of the Channel wide, 



Bird of the soft and snowy breast. 

 Better belov'd than all beside. 



Poised lightly by the wave's white crest. 

 Boulogne ! 'Tis thou whose beauty rare 



With every other nation vies, 

 Whose maidens innocent and fair 

 Reflect the heavens in their eyes ! 

 Since all thy soldiers 

 Are brave and gay. 

 And thy daughters' glances 



Drive peace away. 

 So lovely city, thy spell divine 



Thou castest on me, my heart is thine ! 

 There are beauteous cities 



Wherever I stray, 

 Famous and fruitful, 



Sunny and gay ; 

 But frowning I turn me 



Away from them all. 

 Boulogne ever wooes me 

 With siren caU ! ' 



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