xxviii DAYS AND NIGHTS OF SALMON FISHING 



CHAPTER V 



PAGE 



Course of the Tweed Abbotsford A challenge Higgin- 

 botham broke An ill-natured twist A ponderous 

 salmon A proper mess Cut and drowned Agreeable 

 wading by a corpulent gentleman A damp gentleman, 

 and fatal effects of wading . . . . . .107 



CHAPTER VI 



Salmon lines A lucky cast Disordered tackle Triumphant 

 notwithstanding New construction of a salmon reel 

 Salmon flies The metropolitan fly Powdered lawyers 

 Description, and coloured engraving of flies A worthy 

 person embarrassed Vanishing of a line sea-ward 

 Mathematical angling Raison demonstrative Salmon 

 taken by surprise Tom Purdie Salmon casting his 

 cantrips Robin Hope Novel method of fishing Dis- 

 coloured state of the water A very confident friend and 

 his mishap A gudgeon hunter Fertile imagination of 

 an angler Enormous pike with splendid eyes A dis- 

 comfiture Linn of Campsie, and voyage down the Tay 

 in a high flood ........ 122 



CHAPTER VII 



An angler entranced Absence of mind Cow versus fish 

 View-taking, and landscape painting Claude Lorraine 

 and Salvator Rosa Poussin The grey scull Roslin 

 Pure genius Twos and threes A voracious salmon 

 Melrose Bridge and the Cauld Pool The coup de grace 

 Monstrum horrendum Duncan Grant Rob of the 

 Troughs clean dune out Rob at bay Rob breaks the bay 1 68 



CHAPTER VIII 



Glamour Michael Scott Michael's imp Thomas of Ercil- 



doune Imperfect incantation The imp victorious . 192 



CHAPTER IX 



Conscientious water bailiff Black fishers River sneak A 

 chase Granting a favour The Souter's retreat The 

 clodding leister Tom Purdie 's devil of a fish Heather 

 lights An unsonsie callant Tom gets a fleg " Bleezing 

 up," and peremptory kipper . . . . .198 



