108 AUTUMNS ON THE SPEY. 



close to the bank and quickly dissolved our brief 

 partnership. 



The shades of evening were now beginning to 

 fall, and it was time to start for home. I had 

 three good fish, however, to take with me as 

 trophies, and received many congratulations on 

 my success, though I must confess to having felt 

 half ashamed at being compelled to attribute it to 

 tactics less worthy of the noble art than of the 

 deep-sea practice of a professional cod-fisher. 



