10 MUSSELBURGH ROSLIN CASTLE. 



Within these twenty-five years I have taken a 

 good basket of yellow trout about a mile above 

 the town, and beyond Inveresk, and before you 

 come to some Policies, as they are called. There 

 is still some sea-trout fishing above the old bridge, 

 and also near the sea, though not much fre- 

 quented, and almost never but in a flood. 



J&oslin Castle. 



One of our great days was to the Esk at this 

 place, after long looking and longing for the fast- 

 day or other holiday. I have seen four or five 

 of us boys start for it, after buying a hook or 

 two from Somerville's in Leith Street ; the kind 

 old gentleman for all the shopkeepers there 

 were then gentlemen giving us some good in- 

 structions how to throw our lines without sleech- 

 ing off our hooks. Proceeding by the North 

 Bridge at early day, how sweet was the scent of 

 the peppermint from the gardens below ! How 

 different now! .Where were once beautiful, 



