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SEA-TROUT FISHING 

 by drying and something more by bleeding. Believe it or not: a five-and- 

 twenty pound salmon will not lose more than an ounce of blood, seldom 



as much, and as for drying ! 



I was grievously disappointed once when I brought a fine salmon 

 home from the Willow Bush of Mertoun, on Tweedside. My old friend 

 Goodfellow, patron boatman of that beat, weighing it on his scale, 

 exclaimed, "Weil dune, mister! it's thirty pund and a wee bit to spare." 

 Alas! when submitted to the dispassionate test of my host's scales at 

 Newton Don, the fish could not be made to draw more than 29^ lb. The 

 difference was in the instruments; it would be absurd to maintain that 

 the fish had lost six or eight ounces in half as many hours. 



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