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unsportsmanlike game on the pool above, viz., the 

 Stepping-stones. Then, when the Cockneys at the 

 Cruive had each fished two flies over that pool, they 

 exchanged places with their brethren of the Stepping- 

 stones. 



Nice neighbours, these ! and it is somewhat surprising 

 that the Duke of Argyll, who lets this fine stretch of 

 water to the Taynuilt Hotel, should not insist on the 

 hotel rods being strictly limited to two only, which 

 would be fair to all concerned, while also giving the 

 water a better chance of making a reputation than it 

 has at present, for the incessant flogging the best 

 pools receive entirely spoils them. Solemnly I declare 

 I counted one of the Cruive Pool Cockneys make 

 seventeen casts, each with a splash, in exactly the 

 same spot, and without pulling an inch of line off 

 his reel ! 



Next came other days at Glenfeochan and on the 

 Bonawe shootings at Taynuilt, which Holford's brother- 

 in-law, Major Pearson, had rented for the season. This 

 ground is part of the, at one period, celebrated sporting 



