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salmon which were possible. Quietly the gillie pro- 

 tested. They'll no' be there, I'm thinking said he. 

 " Salmon and sea-troot dinna lie muckle whaur there's 

 rocks or trees. They like the open pairts. It's 

 nearly aye jist opposite a bare bank, and no' a vera 

 high bank, that ye get them." That was a striking 

 remark. I had thought of trout, in the conventional 

 way, as preferring the shady streams and pools, and 

 still more assuredly of salmon as making their haunts 

 in as rugged scenery as they could find ; but on Loch 

 Nell I realised, by repeated experience, that what 

 the gillie said was true, and I have since perceived 

 it true in every other lake I have visited. 



