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of the sea. Then back to the yacht, and after 

 tea we two Dianas of the rod jumped into 

 the dinghy, after saithe ; but they were not 

 much on the rise, and we only got a few, not 

 enough to compensate for the loss of the 

 giant of their race. 



How very rarely, if ever, can one eat a fresh 

 fish from a fishmonger's shop ; certainly I 

 have never tasted any bought haddock or 

 whiting comparable to those one catches 

 one's self ; even twelve hours after they are 

 out of the sea, for a breakfast next morning 

 they are fresher than any shop-bred fish. 



Our next sea fishing was an evening in the 

 Narrows, at the north end of the Sound of 

 Sleat, where the tide races like a mill-stream, 

 out into the sweep of Glenelg Bay. The two 

 men of the party had left the yacht at the 

 Kyle of Lochalsh in the morning, but we two 

 were determined to see the cruise out and sail 

 back to Mallaig, from where we had started 

 two weeks before ; also we were set on the 

 saithe at Kylerea, of which the skipper had 

 told us great tales. It was not a propitious 



