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red and lively worms, and much creeping and caution, 

 are necessary to tempt fish the abundance and excel- 

 lence of whose ordinary feeding is manifested in the 

 pinkness and firmness of their flesh when cooked. The 

 Fangrist-burn, which flows in from Dogden-moss, has 

 much of the character of the Blackadder itself, but of 

 its inhabitants we are hardly entitled to speak from one 

 unsuccessful trial. 



Greenlaw is the county-town of Berwickshire, and 

 is eight miles from Dunse and ten from Coldstream, 

 without any public conveyance running from either of 

 these places. It is, therefore, out of the way, and is 

 scarcely a resort of angling tourists ; but it is never- 

 theless well worth a visit, as from it only can the head 

 of the Blackadder be conveniently fished. It has a 

 large and commodious inn. 



For two or three miles below Greenlaw, the angling 

 in the Blackadder is open to the public ; but for the 

 rest of its course it is almost all carefully preserved by 

 the different proprietors through whose land it flows, — 

 Sir Hugh Campbell of Marchmount, Mr. Swinton of 

 Kimmerghame, Mr. D. M. Home of Wedderburn (who 

 even tries to preserve the Tweed at Milnegraden and 

 Paxton !) Mr. Buchan of Kelloe, Sir George Boswell of 

 Blackadder, and others. By some of these, however — 

 chiefly by Professor Swinton, younger of Kimmerghame 

 — ^leave is, we understand, prettily liberally given, 

 and a visitor at Dunse might probably find little dif- 

 ficulty in obtaining permission to have a day in the 

 lower parts of the Blackadder, where the trout are even 

 bigger and better than in the upper waters. Geordie 



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