ABERDEENSHIRE. Ill 



through the upper jaw, as they all rose quite 

 above the water in taking the fly. The three 

 afternoons' sport yielded eleven new run fish, 

 from 8 to 10 pounds each, and which had not 

 been seen done for thirty years before. 



While at the Don last spring, a rather funny 

 circumstance occurred, showing better than 

 much description, the difference of a Thames 

 fisher from that of a Tweed or Don one. In 

 Pitmedden Pool, at the upper part of it, there 

 are large pike. One forenoon, my friend who 

 was with me for it is pleasant to hunt in pairs, 

 took the one end for them, while I took the 

 bottom for salmon. After a run with one, I 

 walked up to join him, and found him quietly 

 seated on the bank, blowing a comfortable cloud, 

 wanting only a bottle of stout to complete, while 

 his rod was fixed and bending over the stream. 

 His first recognition to me was, Well, what 

 have you done? Why, I have worked a fish 

 these twenty minutes, and at last he fairly broke 

 away, wishing me better luck next time ; and I 

 am breathless and hot, and quite done up. But 

 what have you been about f O, I am all right ; 

 I have one on. By all the fish pools in Heshbon, 

 what do you mean ? It's all right, I tell you 



