ADVICE TO BEGINNERS. 133 



fishers, and who in their own streams could kill 

 seven or eight dozen trout in a day, unable to secure 

 half-a-dozen small fish, in our southern streams. 

 The angler who can kill trout in streams such as 

 Tweed, Gala, or Almond,* which are fished by 

 dozens every day, may rest assured that he is 

 quite able to kill them wherever they are to be 

 found. 



* Mr. Stewart here seems to allude to the Mid-Lothian and 

 Linlithgowshire Almond, from which almost all fish life has 

 now been driven by the paraffiue works. 



