80 ENNIS NA SHIA. 



Bundraos, falls into the same estuary as the 

 Erne, and though the mouths of the two 

 rivers are not three miles apart, yet it never 

 happens that an Erne fish is seen in the 

 Bundraos, and very seldom that a Bundraos 

 fish is seen in the Erne. Now and then a 

 stranger may find his way there, and the 

 most inexperienced eye will detect him at 

 once among hundreds ; but this will probably 

 be a "lost fish." 



There is, with all their ugliness, one pro- 

 perty in the Bundraos fish which is very 

 profitable to the owners of the weirs. Though 

 they are at no time plentiful, yet they are in 

 season for eleven months out of the twelve ; 

 while the Erne fish are in season for scarcely 

 more than three. This is said to be a pecu- 

 liar blessing, conferred on the lake by St. 

 Columba of the Churches, as a reward to 

 the open hand and charitable heart of the 

 then possessor of the fishery ; and certainly 

 if the lake ever was blessed, it has not yet 

 forfeited its blessing. 



" Somewhat over ten dozen of fish, with- 

 out counting these rascally perch," said the 

 Scholar. " Not a bad catch, considering 

 that we had set this down as a blank day." 



