216 DAYS AND NIGHTS OF SALMON FISHING. 



the river; then the fish is pulled to land by means of 

 the aforesaid rope or lyams, so that there is little 

 chance of his escaping in his struggles for freedom. 



The accompanying engraving represents the iron of 

 the clodding waster ; that in general use will be given 

 hereafter. 



Now for Tom Purdie. I should miss the nice points 

 of his character were I to deprive him of his own 

 peculiar way of communicating his feats, though it is 

 but too true, that when he got upon a favourite sub- 

 ject, he was most inhumanly elastic. 



TOM PURDIE'S MUCKLE FISH. 



" While I was with Mr. Anderson, and shepherd at 

 West Bold, one Sunday," says Tom, "I didna go up 

 to Traquair to the kirk, but took a walk by the river 

 side : there were a vast o' fish in the water, and I saw 

 ane or twae great roeners turning, a sure sign there 



