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merit of Geese as decoys. A modern writer describes 

 this piscatory dodge in the following terms : 



" It was fishing with Geese. A line with a baited 

 hook was tied to the leg of a goose, which, thus ac- 

 coutered, was made to swim in water of a proper 

 depth. A boat containing a party male and female 

 lord and lady fair escorted this formidable knight- 

 errant. By and by, he falls in with an adventure. 

 A marauding pike, taking hold of the bait, puts his 

 mettle to the test. A combat ensues, in which, by 

 a display on the part of both contending heroes, of 

 much strength and agility, the sympathetic hopes 

 and fears of the anxious lookers-on are alternately 

 called into lively exercise, until, at length, the long- 

 necked, loud- shouting, feather-cinctured, web-footed 

 champion, vanquishing his wide-mouthed, sharp- 

 toothed, far- darting, scale- armed foe, drags him a 

 prisoner in triumph. This merry doing of the good 

 old times has, alas ! gone out of fashion in this de- 

 generate age." 



The river Carron, which enters the Damoch Firth 

 at Bonar Bridge, is a good stream. It has its source 

 from Loch Charrh, and other small sheets of water, 

 all of which contain large trout. Lochs Culrain and 

 Migdale are in the neighbourhood of Bonar Bridge, 

 where there is a good Inn for the tourist's accommo- 

 dation. 



The river Shine is in great vogue among modern 

 anglers, especially with those who visit it from the 

 south, And indeed it is well entitled to all the com- 

 mendations bestowed upon it. It has, as a river, 



