134 FISH AND FISHING IN SCOTLAND. 



thousand pounds are soon got through in this way. My friend 



Henry W economised in the northern capital, and took 



to mineralogy and geology. The fine old fellow I was then 

 conversing with, having no taste for books or science, rusticated 

 and fished, and well he fished, especially with minnow. To 

 succeed with minnow as a bait, a man ought to be at least five 

 feet ten inches ; strong armed, strong wristed. A shorter man 

 is unable to cause the minnow to touch the water as gently as a 

 fly, which it ought to do ; but unless he does so, he will always 

 be an inferior minnow fisher. Non omnia omnibus is the law of 

 Oxford, although the dons have not acted up to the spirit of the 

 proposition, and a very good law it is. Paley would have said 

 it was so intended, and so no doubt it was, otherwise it would 

 not have been so. But when he pushes this a little further, 

 and argues that it must be a providential arrangement, that all 

 men are not pushing, active, striving, energetic, industrious, he 

 uses a double-edged knife, dangerous to him who employs it. 



We left our pleasant brother of the angle and his little rustic 

 tiny page, promising to call when next we returned to the village, 

 and proceeded down the Beaumont ; but finding that we really 

 were not duly prepared to fish its short streams and semi-stagnant 

 pools, we returned, determined to try the College wat er, another 

 tributary of the Till. The Beaumont we have just left arises on 

 the north aspect of the high or great Cheviot ; the College, I 

 rather think, from its eastern flank. The level summit of the 

 high Cheviot is said to be a morass, whence these streams flow. 



THE COLLEGE WATER. 

 TOWN TETHOLM GIPSY LAND. 



The morning was dull and misty ; it had rained a little, but 

 not sufficient to influence the water. It was the commencement 

 of May, and the gipsy tribe was clustered as it were on the slope of 

 the Cheviot, overhanging Town Yetholm. They were still in 

 their winter quarters. In England, the dark-skinned, black-eyed, 

 Asiatic race, boast of never sleeping under a roof. Not so in 

 Scotland. A considerable body exchange annually, as winter sets 



