112 ABERDEENSHIEE. 



don't you see how my line keeps sliding and 

 pirling out, and in another minute he gave a 

 strike, enough to bring up a pig. Immediately lie 

 was telegraphically connected to an enormous pike. 



Banks of Donside, I owe thee much. 



Wfyt t|jan, 



This river I have fished, both at Newburgh and 

 Ellon, but with little success ; at the latter place 

 I was annoyed by large foul salmon, and at the 

 former, I remember, we enjoyed the famous dish 

 of crappit heads, in company with the minister 

 of Foveran, whose company is equally good, 

 whether at a song, a strathspey, or a sermon. 



Cjre goforan, 



I have fished this river, beginning at Eothie- 

 may, now a very beautiful station on the Great 

 North of Scotland line to Inverness. The trout 

 are of splendid quality ; and, when the river is in 

 order, will repay the angler with a full basket ; 

 but liberty must be obtained. The proprietor is 

 the Earl of Fife, whom I know to be a very 

 kind-hearted nobleman. The day I and other 



