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" ' 'Deed, ye speak true, sir,' said the other 

 voice ; c an' its aye a strange thing to me, that 

 ony ca'ing themselves sportsmen can conde- 

 scend to fish wi' roe. It's just no sport ava, an' 

 the best trouts that are killed, though the 

 biggest in the haill river, are no worth the 

 killing.' 



" 'Indeed, I believe you; but I never saw 

 the operation of fishing with roe. How is it 

 performed ? ' 



" c Aweel, ye require neither rod, nor line, 

 nor gut, nor reel, nor ony thing but just a 

 strong stick a stake out of the hedge is about 

 as guid as anither an' a bit of cord, no matter 

 how thick, an' a heuk with a bittock of lead to 

 sink her, an' a lump of roe as muckle mebbe as 

 a marley is put intil it ; an' ye tak' the highest 

 flood and the darkest water, an' ye stan' on 

 the bank, an' the spent trout that have spawned, 

 ye ken, seek the still waters close in shore, an' 

 they're varra empty and hungry belike, an', 

 when ye feel they swallow the roe, ye just fling 

 'em ower your head ; an' a' the best trout in 

 Tweed are caught that way.' 



" By Jove ! ' said his companion, ' your 

 friend, the baillie, deserved a ducking for his 



