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as we reached it soon after four in the morning, we 

 thought we had done him. at last. He was sitting 

 there, giving it a rest, when we arrived ; and ever 

 since then we had hated him. There was another 

 peculiarity about Angus he never caught a fish. 

 Whether it was that he kept them, or sold them, 

 instead of sending them to his master, as he ought to 

 have done, or whatever was the reason (we could 

 believe any evil of him), he never caught a fish. 

 Meet Angus on the road going home, and it was 

 always the same story, even when we could swear 

 that there was a fish, and a good one, too, in the 

 skirts of his loose coat. 



We speedily see the sense of Johnnie's advice. We 

 agree Avith him, and determine that Angus shall never 

 have that fish at any rate ; and we resolve that that pool 

 shall be our pool for the day, come what will. In a 

 little while our gentleman comes up. He has pro- 

 bably been watching us for some time ; and as he 

 sees that we are not likely to move of our own 

 accord, he thinks it worth while to come and try 

 and tempt us away. For (there is no rule without 

 its exception) he has to-day not only one fish, but 

 two. 



Angus MacHowdie was a long thin man, getting 

 on in years, but still very wiry and active, and, as we 

 have said, a first-rate fisherman. He had a long, pale 

 face ; but its most prominent feature did not share the 

 pallor of its surroundings ; it stood out like a sun- 



