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The tain would be a guid Scotch mile, 

 The other length o' Atlantic's cable. 

 Whipping at her, etc. 



Their take o' fish scarce thirty pounds 

 Avoirdupois, frae west and easter ; 

 I'd hang the loon who changed the law, 

 They ca' his name, I think, W tm er. 

 Whipping at her, switching at her, 

 Thrashing at her, leathering at her ; l 

 Bonnie Tweed at Thornilee, 

 There's ower mony fishing at her. 



J. L. 



Now, in former times, early in the season, 

 when the river opened, say 1st March, a large 

 fly very gaudy, or worm, was used, and I have 

 seen good sport with partail and minnow. I 

 remember being at the Caddon Foot Pool, and 

 of going most carefully over it with the fly, viz., 

 Tom Purday and the butcher, without seeing a 

 fin. A few minutes afterwards, a Galashiels 

 weaver essayed the same with partail, and, at 

 the very first cast, hooked a salmon of 16 Ibs, 

 which I killed for him, he nearly losing it with 



1 A celebrated fisher at Peel, whose constant applica- 

 tion at the water earned for himself the soubriquet of 

 Lord Leatherawa. 



