110 THE BORDER ANGLER. 



may be conveniently fished. Many old stories and 

 traditions still cling to the locality as witness the 

 names of Gilmanscleugh, Deloraine, Singlee, the Fair 

 Dodhead, whence Jamie Telfer's kye were stolen, Oak- 

 wood, the residence of Michael Scott the wizard, whose 

 industrious imp " cleft the Eildon hills in three, and 

 bridled the Tweed with a curb of stone," and Car- 

 terhaugh, the scene of the beautiful fairy ballad of 

 " Young Tamlane." Just below this haugh, which is 

 part of the finely wooded grounds of Bowhill, a fa- 

 vourite residence of the Duke of Buccleuch, the Ettrick 

 meets its twin sister the Yarrow. 



Tibbie Shiels's Inn, on St Mary's Loch, at the 

 head of the Yarrow, is certainly at present the most 

 famous angling-resort in the south of Scotland. It 

 stands on the neck of land that separates St. Mary's 

 from the Loch o' the Lowes, and has, out of all sight, 

 the most beautiful situation of any fishing-inn that the 

 border angler can visit. Surrounded by steep green 

 hills, the two lochs lie so sweetly whether bright un- 

 der the summer heavens, while 



" Not a feature of those hills 

 Is in that mirror slighted," 



or more greyly reflecting a cloudy sky, and rippling 

 with a southerly wind that the weary wandering 

 angler, as he descends upon them, feels as if he had at 

 last reached the Fisher's Elysium. Tibbie's, with its 

 little circle of trees and its cosy parlour, is in complete 

 harmony with the picture comfort modestly and fit- 

 tingly putting in its claim to a corner even in realms 

 of fairy beauty. Nor did angler, since the days when 



