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in the pine woods o' Braemar, let alone Gaick and Glen 

 Feshie ; and I will leave the braes of Atholl for yer 

 Grace to tak yer pleasure in, and never fash them more 

 since ye request the favour.' " 



Seven years after the appearance of " The Art of 

 Deer-stalking," in 1845, Scrope published "Days and 

 Nights of Salmon-fishing in the Tweed." The second 

 book was in externals an exact facsimile of the first, 

 sumptuously bound, and illustrated by engravings of 

 pictures by David Wilkie, the two Landseers, and the 

 author himself. 



There were some who thought that William Scrope 

 did not know as much about salmon-fishing as he did 

 about deer-stalking, and that what he did know had been 

 picked up at second hand. Only once in the most casual 

 way does he mention the name of John Haliburton as 

 his professional fisherman, yet, if John Younger is to be 

 believed, Haliburton had a great deal more to do with 

 Mr. Scrope's success in salmon-fishing than that gentle- 

 man was willing to admit. This is what the St. 

 Boswell's shoemaker has to say on this subject in his 

 Autobiography. 



" While Haliburton was on the Dryburgh water, Mr. 

 Scrope came here, following his fishing tastes. He had 

 been on a jaunt around a number of the fishing stations 

 in Scotland, and, calling in for some days with John at 

 Dryburgh, became quite delighted with the river and 

 John together. As he then expressed it to Philip Garrat 

 his chief servant, he found John the most able, handy 

 and ingenious fisherman he had ever met with. 



Scrope, supplanting George Sanderson and old John 



