Chart, vi. Dttwr Fortiori 89 



making a oorreot diagnosis will be acquired by practice, though 



there is a spice of nascitur nonfit about it too. 



How soon a vacant place is ordinarily reoccupied I do not 

 know. Sometimes the very next day, if I remember rightly. How 

 do fish find out that there is a vacant tenement ? It would seem 

 that they must l>e giving a look in from time to time to see. 



Since the above was in printer's hands, I have come upon the 

 following in "My Life as an Angler,'' by William Henderson, 

 London, William Salbhell and Co., 12, Tavistock Street, Covent 

 Garden, W.CL, 1880, a book that is very pleasant reading: — 



" I remember a tale told me by Johnny Younger, which shows how 

 " surely the angler may rely upon this habit of the largest trout. On 

 " one of my visits to his workshop he mentioned three evenings ' fishing 

 " which his son had recently taken in the Tweed. On the first of these, 

 " when fishing upwards, I believe with the worm, he came to the stream 

 " which flows immediately below Merton Cauld. The hour was late, the 

 " gloaming far advanced, and the angler had captured several trout 

 " of the usual size, when on trying one particular spot which he knew 

 " by experience to be the best, he succeeded in taking a fish of, if I 

 " remember rightly, 3 lbs. weight. On hearing this, Johnny observed 

 " that no doubt this was ' the tyrant,' and advised his son to try the 

 " same spot on the subsequent evening, as the fish next in size would 

 " no doubt be found there. The prophecy proved true ; a fish somo- 

 " what smaller than the last was basketed. On the third evening, 

 " another trout still rather less was captured, but the three were far 

 " heavier than any others taken." 



