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he rugs when I'm sleeping,' said he, * I think I'll 

 find him noo ; ' and no doubt it is probable that he 

 would. Accordingly, after a comfortable nap of three 

 or four hours, Duncan was awoke by a most uncere- 

 monious tug at his jaws. In a moment he was on his 

 feet, his rod well up, and the fish swattering down the 

 stream. He followed as best he could, and was be- 

 ginning to think of the rock at Craigellachie, when he 

 found to his great relief that he could * get a pull on 

 him.' He had now comparatively easy work; and 

 exactly twelve hours after hooking him, he cleicked him 

 at the head of Lord Fife's water : he weighed fifty-four 

 pounds, Dutch, and had the tide lice upon him." 



Thus Duncan Grant has instructed us how to manage 

 a large Salmon. Let us now see . how a large Salmon 

 may manage us. 



In the year 1815, Robert Kerse hooked a clean 

 Salmon of about forty pounds in the Makerstoun Water, 

 the largest, he says, he ever encountered : sair work 

 he had with him for some hours ; till at last Rob, to use 

 his own expression, was " clean dune out." He landed 

 the fish, however, in the end, and laid him on the channel; 

 astonished, and rejoicing at his prodigious size, he called 

 out to a man on the opposite bank of the river, who 

 had been watching him for some time. 



" Hey, mon, sic a fish ! " 



He then went for a stone to fell him with ; but as 

 soon as his back was turned, the fish began to wamble 

 towards the water, and Kerse turned, and jumped upon 

 it ; over they both tumbled, and they, line, hook, and 

 all went into the Tweed. The fish was too much for 



