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CHAPTER VI. 



1886. 



The first sport that came my way this season was 

 enjoyed as the guest of Mr. B. Lancaster Rose at the 

 Huntly Arms Hotel, Aboyne — an excellent house for 

 comfort, while the daily beat told oflf to each angler 

 was (and still is) a good big one, containing quite as 

 many pools as could be comfortably fished in the day, 

 and at certain heights of water very good sport is often 

 to be had on this section. On this occasion, however, 

 "she" was "a' wrang," and from April the 5th to the 

 14th four of us took but twelve fish, while here again 

 the natural minnow came out best, for of the total 

 catch, just one half fell to my rod, the other three 

 fishers having stood by the fly. Next, from the 15th 

 to the 21st, I stayed with Turner Farley in his 



