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ground at the rate of two miles an hour. In 

 fishing for salmon, 1 however, it is generally in 

 the different pools, and you warm yourself 

 while you make your way to the next one you 

 intend to fish, it may be a mile up or perhaps a 

 mile down, the river. This, no doubt, sounds 

 strange to our Cockney friends, who, accustomed 

 to fish in position, in patience, and in a punt, 

 know little about the capturing of salmo salar ; 

 for, instead of sitting at your ease, with bottled 

 stout, pipes and tobacco, you walk along the banks, 

 around you the calm and peaceful hills, with 

 the Baronial Castle in the distance ; the flowing 

 and winding river ; the shaking of the trees of 

 the valley, the oak, the beech, and the fir ; the 

 gentle breeze, 'the incense breathing morn,' 

 curling the surface of the pools ; the singing of 

 the water crow, 2 in its notes not unlike the 

 canary the only bird which at present puts 

 forth its song, save the robin's plaintive notes, 

 at this season, l fa' o' the leaf.' But, hark, you 



1 Salmon are not found across the line ; although, I 

 have been credibly informed by a friend, there are trout 

 streams in New Zealand. 



* I seldom or ever saw this bird on the Don ; formerly 

 there was a reward given for shooting him on Tweed. 



