LOCHEND. 



hedges and ditches, straight as the crow flies, 

 in the company of my companion, Thomas 

 Campbell, who had to return to his work at 

 Marshall's at six A.M. Marshall was a marble- 

 cutter in Leith Walk, and was engaged at that 

 time in sculpturing the two figures which now 

 adorn the front of the Bank of Scotland in 

 Edinburgh ; they occupied him for three years, 

 and he shed tears when they were sent away. 

 T. C. became a sculptor in London, and died in 

 1858. The only bait we took was worms, dug 

 from the garden the night before. The perch 

 is a greedy and a foul-feeding fish, and will take 

 anything, even the entrails of its fellows. Many ' 

 were the good perches we took in this way ; and 

 I used sometimes to kill them freely with live 

 minnows, when I managed to obtain a few from 

 some of my school-fellows, who fished them out 

 of Canonmills Loch ; and, just fixing them dead 

 or alive on one of my large bait-hooks, we often 

 got them |lb. and upwards. As an instance of 

 voraciousness in the perch, I may here mention, 

 that one morning, my friend hooked one with 

 the worm, which, on dragging out, he found to 

 be in reality two. A perch, about 1^ Ibs., had 

 endeavoured, perhaps the day before, to devour 



