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THE SALT OF MY LIFE 



The Teign is a noted salmon river, and now and 

 again (rarely again !) a good fish is taken on the 

 rod as high as Bridford. Sometimes, in the fall of 

 the year, the river is so low that salmon get im- 

 prisoned in shallows below the falls, where they 



NETTING SALMON IN THE UPPER TEIGN 



lie at the mercy of poaching larm labourers, and 

 now and then we used to net them out in landing- 

 nets and transfer them at once, running across an 

 intervening meadow, to a higher reach where they 

 would be immune from the hayfork. The refusal 

 of one of the riparian owners, a farmer, to permit 

 this salvage on the part of the Association last 



