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THE CLODDING LEISTER. 



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 subject, he was 

 most inhumanly elastic. 



TOM PUEDIE'S MUCKLE FISH. 



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

 West Bold, one Sunday," says Tom, " I did na go up 



