CONTENTS 



CHAPTER I 



Citizen Anglers — Mr. Pooley — Mr. John Poplin — Scientific Angler — 

 Self-complacent Angler — Harry Otter . . . Page 1 



CHAPTER II 



Salmonida? — The Common Salmon — His Powers of Swimming and 

 Leaping — Method of Spawning — Habits — Passage to the Sea — 

 Letter from the Author to Mr. Kennedy respecting the Parr — 

 The Peculiar Formation of its Eyes, similar to that of a Salmon — 

 Mr. Shaw's Experiments — Passage of the Smolts to the Sea — 

 Gilses — Destruction of Salmon Fry — Injurious Effects of Heavy 

 Spates — Tame Salmon — Change of Colour in Fish — Dr. Stark's 

 Experiments — Proceedings at the Literary and Philosophical 

 Society of St. Andrews — Seasons of Various Rivers — Cairn Net — 

 The Salmon Trout — The Grey, or Bull Trout — Severe Contest 

 with him — St. Kentigern .... Page 8 



CHAPTER III 



Harry Otter — Childish Incident — Martha's Eloquence — The Coy 

 Phyllis — Self-devotion of a Fish — Feats of Master Harry — The 

 Pet Basket — Encounter with a Duck — An Idle Scamp — " I saw 

 young Harry with his beaver off" . . . Page 7- 



CHAPTER IV 



Murderous Fish — Hypocritical Fish — Curious Predicament — A Cat 

 Fish — Facetious Whale — Harry Otter Pastoral — Purchase of 

 Horses of Dissenting Opinions — The Illustrious Higginbotham — 

 A Five Pounder — Trout not a Fish — Dumbfoundered — Melrose — 

 Waxing of the Water— Walter the Bold— The Eildon Hills Page 80 



