468 CHINESE FISHING 
glided down stream, quietly drove the lower reaches, and 
shepherded the fishes towards our angler’s bait. 
Like his Chinese brother, the British angler, when he goes 
a-fishing, carries a flask: unlike him, he does not, and cannot, 
unless he have the grand accommodation of a Loch Leven 
boatman thirty years ago, “ drink and fish by equal turns.” 
Even if the difficulty of equal drinking turn by turn on the 
part of the sportsman and sprite be overcome, it is doubtful 
whether a British angler, however adaptive and alert to learn, 
can in these days ensure a full creel by adopting Hsii’s tip, 
having regard to the scanty stock and prohibitive price of 
whisky. Whether in the near or even far future the recipe 
can be thoroughly tested lies on the niggard lap of the Board 
of Control. 
