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has, an' ye'll find it in rivers an' burns, an' 

 abune waterfalls, an' in mountain tarns, where 

 no saumon ever yet was seen or could get, an' 

 it's streekit an' barred all the same as the young 

 saumon-parr ; and it's just the confusion of 

 ca'ing the twa by the ae name that's raised a' 

 the fash that's made about the " edentity," 

 as they ca' it, of the parr with the young 

 saumon.' 



" ' Then you believe that the parr is not the 

 young of the salmon ? ' 



" i If ye ca' the young saumon the parr, the 

 parr is the young saumon ; but there's anither 

 parr that has a better right to the name, an 3 

 it's a pity that twa fish should be bund to hae 

 but ae name betwixt them.' 



" At this point of the conversation, feeling 

 myself somewhat recovered from the effects of 

 my immersion in the uncongenial air, I strug- 



never yet ascended, nor could by possibility ascend. I 

 Lave baited hooks with the tough little beggars, and re- 

 leased them alive after they had towed a trimmer for six 

 hours about a loch ; the salmon parr being as soft as a pat 

 of butter, and endowed with about as much power of 

 sustaining hardships. Doubtless the young salmon is the 

 parr, but the parr is not alivays the young salmon. Ed. 



