XVI CONTENTS. 



CHAP. V. 



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

 botham broke. — An ill-natured twist. — A ponderous salmon. — 

 A proper mess. — Cut and drowned. — Agreeable wading by a 

 corpulent gentleman. — A damp gentleman, and fatal effects of 

 wading Page 101 



CHAP. VI. 



Salmon lines. — A lucky cast. — Disordered tackle. — Triumphant 

 notwithstanding. — New construction of a salmon reel. — Salmon 

 flies. — The metropolitan" fly. — Powdered lawyers. — Descrip- 

 tion, and coloured engraving of flies. — A worthy person em- 

 barrassed. — 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 discomfiture. — Linn of Campsie, and voyage down 

 the Tay in a high flood - - - - - -115 



CHAP. VII. 



An angler entranced — Absence of mind. — Cow versus fish. — 

 View-taking, and landscape painting. — Claude Lorraine and 

 Salvator Rosa. — Poussin. — The grey scull. — Roslin. — Pure 

 genius. — Twos and threes. — A voracious salmon. — Melrose 

 Bridge and the Cauld Pool. — The coup de grace. — Monstrum 

 horrendum. — Duncan Grant. — Rob of the Troughs clean 

 dune out. — Rob at bay. — Rob breaks the bay J - - 159 



CHAP. VTH. 



Glamour. — Michael Scott. — Michael's imp. — Thomas of Ercil- 

 doune. — Imperfect incantation. — The imp victorious - 182 



CHAP. IX. 



Conscientious water bailiff. — Black fishers. — River 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 fleg. — "Bleezing 

 up," and peremptory kipper - - - - -188 



