1S2 riSH AND FISHING TS SCOTLAND. 



Whitadder. To fish this stream advantageously, the angler 

 should take up his residence at a village situated on its banks, 

 about seven miles to the south of Kelso, near the entrance to 

 the valley I have just mentioned. From this village to Kale 

 mouth, where it joins the Teviot, there are many fine streams 

 and pools. Trout of the usual kind abound, and salmon and 

 sea trout ascend the Kale, but I never saw any parr ; and I have 

 been assured by those who know the river well, that parr are not 

 to be found in the Kale. It is a most remarkable circumstance, 

 were the fact fully proved, but negative evidence is generally 

 defective. Fine walks may be had all around. You are on the 

 edge or shoulder of the Cheviot. 



When tired of the Kale, the angler may reach in a short 

 walk the Beaumont and College, feeders of the Glen and the Till. 

 But to fish these without discomfort and extreme fatigue, he 

 had better make Town Yetholm his head quarters fora few days. 

 He is now in Gipsy Land. 



Musing on the past, I wander in imagination by the banks of 

 the Kale, and by Tweedside. Where are the friends of my 

 early years ? dead, broken, dispersed, gone. Where the rich 

 farmers who rented these farms ? depressed, sunk, ruined. The 

 palace, strong and eternal, reposes on its primogeniture and 

 feudal rights : the eotter exists, protected by the contempt which 

 poverty, ignorance, and a hopelessly pitiful state naturally 

 engender. But the middle class man disappears ; rent consumes 

 first his profits and next his capital. The little property he had 

 sinks into the jaws of the territorial lion. 



It is sufficiently curious that, in the district of which 1 now 

 speak, the swollen neck, so common in Derbyshire, is met with 

 frequently. This is the land for the Cheviot sheep, turnips, and 

 large farms, and enterprise. 



