ANGLING AND ART IN 

 SCOTLAND 



CHAPTER I 



BOYHOOD IN GALLOWAY 



HERE are two Arts that 

 might aptly walk side by 

 side, as Plato walks with Aris- 

 totle in Raphael's " School of 

 Athens." The one is the 

 Art of Landscape Painting, 

 the other, " The Gentle Art " 

 — the ancient craft of Ang- 

 ling; and in the beautiful 

 land of Scotland, either may be pursued to the 

 utmost limit of advantage. 



They have much in common ; each requires 

 an observant eye, and a hand trained to obey that 

 eye ; and hidden in the bosom of each, lie the keys 

 of the mystery and the poetry contained in the 

 great field of Nature. Moreover, there is one 



