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large trout move at feeding-time. There is no long 

 rippling channelly flow of water in the Blackadder, 

 there being more slow pools than fast streams. In 

 these pools, save when fly-fishing with a wind, or 

 minnow-fishing after a flood, it is of no use to angle ; 

 so attention should be chiefly directed to the runs and 

 occasional by-places. The district is lonely: with the 

 exception of a single farm-house and a herd's cottage 

 or two, for five or six miles above Greenlaw there is 

 no sign of human life. But if the fishing life is not 

 so exuberant as in the Whitadder and its other tribu- 

 taries, the size of the trout makes ample amends. No 

 water, however, requires greater care on the part of 

 the angler. Small flies and the very finest tackle, or 

 red and lively worms, and much creeping and caution, 

 are necessary to tempt fish the abundance and excel- 

 lence of whose ordinary feeding is manifested in the 

 pinkness and firmness of their flesh when cooked. The 

 Fangrist-burn, which flows in from Dogden-moss, has 

 much of the character of the Blackadder itself, but of 

 its inhabitants we are hardly entitled to speak from one 

 unsuccessful trial. 



Greenlaw is the county-town of Berwickshire, and 

 is eight miles from Dunse and ten from Coldstream, 

 without any public conveyance running from either of 

 these places. It is, therefore, out of the way, and is 

 scarcely a resort of angling tourists ; but it is never- 

 theless well a worth a visit, as from it only can the 

 head of the Blackadder be conveniently fished. It has 

 a large and commodious inn. 



For two or three miles below Greenlaw, the angling 

 in the Blackadder is open to the public ; but for the 



