204 ANGLERS' EVENINGS. 



Omnes. — Good night father, and to-morrow you shall 

 show us how to catch a salmon. 



Chap. \Y.—AT THE CLACHAN OF FIN TRY. 



VENATOR, PETER, CORYDON. 



Encouraged by the delights of their first raid, three of 

 the members of that expedition undertook, in the month of 

 August, a second journey. On the morning of the nth, 

 Venator, Peter, and Corydon met in royal glee at the 

 station yclept Lenzie Junction, which they named as 

 their trysting place, the two latter furnished with so large 

 a quantity of baggage as to incur a merited reproof from 

 their senior, Venator. Pleasant greetings, and the 

 reproof both over, Lennoxton was soon reached, whence 

 further progress to the Vale of Fintry, nine miles 

 away, must be by trap, which, by the well-ordered 

 providence of Venator, was duly in waiting. 



Through this vale flows the Endrick, famous among 

 Scottish streams for its fine-flavoured, and not parsimonious 

 trout. The drive was somewhat slow, being steep ; but 

 the slowness of the locomotion was amply compensated 

 for by the glorious view which the raiders had of the far- 

 famed Glen of Campsie, with the noble Castle of 

 Lennoxton, surmounting a finely wooded hill on the 

 right, and stretching away to the south-west towards 

 Lenzie Junction and Glasgow. 



After four and a half miles, the first human habitation 



