30 ANGLING SKETCHES 



still full of greedy trout. I shall give the angler 

 such a hint of its whereabouts as Tiresias, in 

 Hades, gave to Odysseus concerning the end of 

 his second wanderings. 



When, O stranger, thou hast reached a burn 



ASHIESTEIL BRIDGE 



where the shepherd asks thee for the newspaper 

 wrapped round thy sandwiches, that he may read 

 the news, then erect an altar to Priapus, god of 

 fishermen, and begin to angle boldly. 



Probably the troops who fish our Border-burns 

 still manage to toss out some dozens of tiny fishes, 



