Chapt. i. Transports in transportation. 3 



Englishmen have few relaxations indeed in this land 

 of their exile. Very very differently situated in this res- 

 pect is the Puhlic Servant in India and his congener in 

 England. "All work and no play makes Jack a dull hoy," 

 but I venture to say from experience that an energetic 

 Mahseer telegraphs such an enlivening thrill of pleasure- 

 able excitement up the line, down the rod, and through 

 the wrist and arm, to the very heart of the man that has 

 got well fixed, that it makes his pulse beat quicker, and 

 it is altogether as good as a tonic to him. Be he ever 

 so cool in the management of a heavy fish, even the old 

 hand cannot but experience a certain amount of exhili- 

 ration. 



"The stern joy which warriors feel 

 "In foeman worthy of their steel." 



I maintain that a few such electric currents before 

 breakfast do a man good, and send him into his daily 

 work much more wide-awake and cheerful. Pulvermacher 

 is nothing to it. Considering the amount of refreshing 

 good it does a fellow, it is a wonder an enlightened Go- 

 vernment does not keep a man in rod and tackle, and 

 allow treble hooks to be included in the annual "Sadir 

 warid." 



Furthermore a successful fisherman is calculated to 

 take more interest than his neighbours in a matter which 

 has grown to be acknowledged, both in England and 

 India, as of national importance, to wit, pisciculture, or 

 in other words, the means of increasing the supply of 

 animal food yielded by fishes. A really good fisherman 



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