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CHAPTER IV. 



Murderous fish— Hypocritical fish— Curious predicament 

 —A cat fish— Facetious whale— Harry Otter pastoral- 

 Purchase of horses of dissenting opinions— The illus- 

 trious Higginbotham— A five pounder— Trout not a 

 fish — Durnb-foundered — Melrose — Waxing of the 

 wa ter— Walter the Bold— The Eildon Hills, . Page 102 



CHAPTER V. . 



Course of the Tweed— Abbotsford— A challenge— Higgin- 

 botham broke— An ill-natured twist— A ponderous 

 salmon— A proper mess— Cut and drowned— Agree- 

 able wading by a corpulent gentleman — A damp 

 gentleman, and fatal effects of wading, . . .121 



CHAPTER VI. 



Salmon fines — A lucky cast — Disordered tackle — Tri- 

 umphant notwithstanding — New construction of a 

 salmon reel— Salmon flies — The metropolitan fly — 

 Powdered lawyers — Description, and coloured en- 

 graving of flies — A worthy person embarrassed — 

 Vanishing of a line sea-ward— Mathematical angling 

 — Raison demonstrative — Salmon taken by surprise- 

 Tom Purdie — Salmon casting his cantrips — Robin 

 Hope — Novel method of fishing — Discoloured state of 

 the water— A very confident friend and his mishap— 

 A gudgeon hunter — Fertile imagination of an angler 

 — Enormous pike with splendid eyes — A discomfi- 

 ture — Linn of Campsie, and voyage down the Tay in 

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