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are rented by Mr. Broad wood. The Caiildpool, and 

 the stream above it, just above the suspension-bridge 

 that has recently been erected for communication with 

 Gattonside — a viUage on the opposite bank of the 

 Tweed — have several noted casts, and the Battery 

 stream and Cowie's Hole, below the bridge, have also 

 usually a number of grilse in them in summer-time. 

 There is, indeed, excellent salmon-fishing close to 

 Melrose, but of course it is somewhat difficult to ob- 

 tain permission to try it. A Purdie — a nephew, we 

 believe, of Sir Walter's Tom — is one of INIr. Broad- 

 wood's keepers, and inherits much of the spirit of his 

 predecessors. 



There is not, however, any restriction now upon 

 fishing for trout — the attempt to prohibit the public 

 right having been abandoned. A stupid decision by 

 Sheriff Kutherfurd (of Roxburghshire) to the effect 

 that the owner of a salmon-cast may prevent trout- 

 angling in it, lest the salmon should thereby be dis- 

 turbed, is, we should think, too absurd for anyone ever 

 to try to enforce it. Melrose, therefore, is a capital 

 station for the angler. He has the Tweed at hand ; 

 the railway will, any morning, carry him to any other 

 part of the river below him, to the Gala, to the Teviot, 

 or to Ale-water, and bring him back at night ; while 

 he is within walking distance of the Leader and the 

 Elwand. There are excellent inns — in fact, all so 

 good that we cannot single out any as the best, al- 

 though the George is perhaps the most frequented. A 

 tackle-shop — a branch, if we mistake not, of Forrest's 

 of Kelso — will supply the angler with suitable flies 

 or other angling material, and the intelligent keeper 



