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last ; one mouthful was enough ; it was beastly, oily, 

 tough, and fishy. Long faces were plentiful round the 

 table, and then, they seeing that their verdict was also 

 ours, we all had a hearty laugh, and a " go " each of 

 liqueur brandy put matters right. 



1891. 



From the 11th February to 16 th March I fished the 

 Carlogie water of the Dee with Charles Baily, staying 

 at Kincardine O'Neil. The weather proved cold and 

 boisterous, and there were very few fish in the water, 

 for, as the whole of this stretch is a high-water 

 fishery, it was of course at summer level during most 

 of the time we were there, and but nineteen fish 

 between us was the score. 



The enormous quantities of kelts found in the Dee 

 in the months of early spring bring into greater 

 prominence here than on less plentifully stocked rivers 

 the subject of kelt preservation, of which I am a warm 

 advocate. Such vast numbers, however, met their 

 death each season by cold steel on this river, that in 



