EVENINGS ON THE EARN, 



1 Away frae the smoke and the smothers ! 



Away frae the crush o' the thrang ! 



That hae fettered our freedom sae lang ; 

 For the May's i' fu' bloom i' the hedges, 



An' the Laverock's aloft i' the blue, 

 An' the south wind sings low i' the sedges,. 



By haughs that are silvery wi' dew. 

 Up, angler, aff wi' each shackle ! 



Up, gad and gaff, an' awa ! 

 Cry Hurrah ! for the canny ' red heckle,' 



The heckle that tackled them a'." 



T. Wcstwood. 



HAVE read somewhere that the 

 Earn is a "dour" river to fish, but 

 I have not found it so at least 

 not more so than other rivers 

 flowing through a low-lying, rich, 

 agricultural district, where the 

 trout run to a good size, are 

 well fed, and wary. In the sum- 

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