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CHAPTER V 



Course of the Tweed Abbotsford A Challenge Higginbotham 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 . Page 106 



CHAPTER VI 



Salmon Lines A Lucky Cast Disordered Tackle Triumphant not- 

 withstanding 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 

 Discoloured 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 Discomfiture Linn of 

 Campsie, and Voyage down the Tay in a High Flood . Page 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 ....... Page 169 



CHAPTER VIII 



Glamour Michael Scott Michael's Imp Thomas of Ercildoune 

 Imperfect Incantation The Imp victorious . . Page 193 



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 

 Gallant Tom gets a Fleg ee Bleezing up/' and Peremptory 

 Kipper ....... Page 199 



