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CHAPTER V 



Course of the Tweed — Abbotsford — A Challenge — Higginbotham broke 

 — An Ill-natured Twist — A Ponderous Salmon — A Proper Mess — 

 Cut and drowned — Agreeable Wading by a Corpulent Gentleman 

 — A Damp Gentleman, and Fatal Eftects of Wading . Page 106 



CHAPTER VI 



Salmon Lines — A Lucky Cast — Disordered Tackle — Triumphant not- 

 withstanding — New Construction of a Salmon Reel— Salmon Flies 

 — The Metropolitan Fly — Powdered Lawyers — Description and 

 Coloured Engraving of Flies — A worthy Person embarrassed — 

 Vanishing of a Line sea-ward — Mathematical Angling — Raison 

 Demonstrative — Salmon taken by Surprise — Tom Purdie — Salmon 

 casting his Cantrips — Robin Hope — Novel Method of Fishing — 

 Discoloured State of the Water — A very confident Friend and his 

 Mishap— A Gudgeon Hunter — Fertile Imagination of an Angler — 

 Enormous Pike with splendid Eyes — A Discomfiture — Linn of 

 Campsie, and Voyage down the Tay in a High Flood . Page 122 



CHAPTER VII 



An Angler entranced — Absence of Mind — Cow versus Fish — Mew- 

 taking and Landscape Painting — Claude Lorraine and Salvator 

 Rosa — Poussin — The Grey Scull — Roslin — Pure Genius — Twos and 

 Threes — A Voracious Salmon — Melrose Bridge and the Can Id 

 Pool — The Coup de Grace — Monstrum Horrendum — Duncan Grant 

 — Rob of the Troughs clean dune out— Rob at bay — Rob breaks 

 the Bay ....... Page 169 



CHAPTER VIII 



Glamour — Michael Scott — Michael's Imp — Thomas of Ercildoune — 

 Imperfect Incantation — The Imp victorious . . Page 193 



CHAPTER IX 



Conscientious Water Bailift' — Black Fishers — River Sneak — A Chase — 

 Granting a Favour -The Souter*s Retreat — The Clodding Leister 

 — Tom Purdie's Devil of a Fish— Heather Lights — An Unsonsie 

 Callant— Tom get- a Fleg — "Bleezing up," and Peremptory 

 Kipper ....... Page 199 



