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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Little Rivers by Henry van Dyke: neckerchiefs--who were always in evidence, rowing gondolas with
clumsy oars, meeting the steamboat at the wharf several times a
day, and filling the miniature garden of the hotel with rustic
greetings and early Salzkammergut attitudes. After much
conjecture, I learned that they were the family and friends of a
newspaper editor from Vienna. They had the literary instinct for
local colour.
The fishing at Hallstatt is at Obertraun. There is a level stretch
of land above the lake, where the river flows peaceably, and the
fish have leisure to feed and grow. It is leased to a peasant, who
makes a business of supplying the hotels with fish. He was quite
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