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the water, rather than on the land. One has less 

 liberty on the stream-bank than on the mountain- 

 side. The gruffness of tone, and the strength of 

 expletive by which one is startled out of some 

 day-dream, into 

 which he has 

 been soothed by 

 the musical 

 summer ripples, 

 makes him rub 

 his eyes, and ask 

 himself if he is 



in tli,- MM,- % / ; 



lands. The 

 water bailiff is 

 the southern 

 double of the 

 northern ghillie; 



and the natural ^^^^^l^ppw^: enemy 



of the Borderer, who can 



never be made to see that he has no right to his 

 streams. 



" Hae ye a line ? " meaning written permission 

 roared one of the watchers to an angler, who stood 

 on the banks of one of the main tributaries, motion- 

 less as a heron, except for the swing of his arm. 



