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fond recollections of its kind and hospitable 

 owners. This is capital fishing water for large 

 trout, and down to the splendid Coval Pot, where 

 there is both large trout and salmon. I may 

 mention, when fishing here, many a time and oft, 

 at the end of the milltail race, that during the 

 time the foul water was sent down from the 

 scouring tubs, I never could catch a trout, 

 although I have often tried to do so at the time ; 

 doubtless, they avoided this * complication of 

 villanous smells,' compounded from soap and 

 various coloured dye stuffs, which has the effect, 

 I suppose, of giving them a sair mouth ; for, in 

 it, they do not bite ; and this puts me in mind 

 of an anecdote told me by a friend of mine, 

 who was present at the party: In Shakspere 

 Square, Edinburgh, some forty years ago, lived 

 Lucky Johnston, the famous Harry Johnston's 

 mother, who kept an oyster shop. I remember 

 the name of Pandores being over the door in 

 great letters. One night during his engage- 

 ment at the theatre, she had invited a few of 

 her cronies to their supper ; and, after the play, 

 to hear a funny story from Maister Harry, her 

 son. Well, they were all assembled, and John- 

 ston came out with one of ' his very drollest ; ' 



