THREE FISHERS, AND SOME BIG FISH 135 



beat, where, on October 13, 1873, ne caught sixteen 



salmon, weighing 22 lb., 18 lb., 9 lb., 20 lb., 27 lb., 



23 lb., 1 7 lb., 6 lb., 9 lb., 16 lb., 22^ lb., 2\\ lb., 25 lb., 



7 lb., 18 lb., 20 lb., losing four, and having also eleven 



' rises ' and ' pulls.' On the three previous fishing days 



Mr. Malcolm had caught twelve, fourteen, and fifteen 



large salmon, and I think he always a little grudged 



the chance that he happened to have given away the 



fourth, although he was by no means given to the 



failing of jealousy over his sport. I have often heard 



him tell the story of the great week, and I think he 



would have been just as well pleased if the sixteen 



had fallen to his share, and one of the other three good 



days to that of his guest upon that occasion. Long 



after he was unable to fish himself, he still took a deep 



interest in the sport of others, and often made his 



way round to the gun room at Poltalloch to look at 



the fish that I, Egremont Lascelles, or some other of 



his connections or guests, had brought back in the 



evening. l Alfred Denison was an even more constant 



and devoted disciple of Izaak Walton ; for as a 



bachelor he had more time at his disposal, and in the 



autumn of life was able to devote nearly all his 



1 Much of my information as to Mr. Alfred Denison was 

 kindly supplied by his nephew, Sir Walter Phillimore, some of 

 it having been previously published in a letter to the Field 

 newspaper at the time of his death. 



