CONTENTS. 15 



CHAPTER VII. 



An angler entranced — Absence of mind — Cow versus 

 fish — View-taking, and landscape painting — Claude 

 Lorraine and Salvator Eosa — Poussin — The grey- 

 scull — Boslin — Pure genius — Twos and threes — A 

 voracious salmon — Melrose Bridge and the Cauld 

 Pool — The coup de grace — Monstrum horrendurn — 

 Duncan Grant — Eob of the Troughs clean dune 

 out — Eob at bay — Eob breaks the bay, . . Page 179 



CHAPTEE VIII. 



Glamour — Michael Scott — Michael's imp — Thomas of 

 Ercildoune — Imperfect incantation — The imp vic- 

 torious, 202 



CHAPTEE IX. 



Conscientious water bailiff — Black fishers — Eiver sneak 

 A chase — Granting a favour — The Souter's retreat — 

 The clodding leister — Tom Purdie's devil of a fish — 

 Heather lights — An unsonsie callant — Tom gets a fieg 

 — " Bleezing up," and peremptory kipper, . . . 208 



CHAPTEE X. 



Sunlight — Mr. Tintern's partiality to one leg — His pony 

 ahint — Occurrence at Abbotsford — Sunning — Net and 

 harpoon — Voracity of eels — Tom Purdie's sarcasm — 

 Mr. Tintern suspected of howking tricks — Trolling — 

 A curious occurrence — Harling — Bait fishing — Min- 

 now and parr's tail — Black Meg of Darnwick — Firing 

 of Meg's tower, and her death — The leister — Canting 

 the boat — A striking incident — Eake hooks — Liberal 

 advice, . . 225 



