CONTENTS xxix 



CHAPTER X 



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Sunlight Mr. Tintern's partiality to one leg His pony ahint 

 Occurrence at Abbotsford Sunning Net and harpoon 

 Voracity of eels Tom Purdie's sarcasm Mr. Tintern 

 suspected of howking tricks Trolling A curious occur- 

 rence Harling Bait fishing Minnow and parr's tail 

 Black Meg of Darnwick Firing of Meg's tower, and her 

 death The leister Canting the boat A striking inci- 

 dent Rake hooks Liberal advice . . . .215 



CHAPTER XI 



The burning A night scene, and blazing up Tom Purdie 

 diverts himself Striking from an eminence Tom Purdie 

 gets a repreef from Sir Walter, and his consequent em- 

 barrassment Benign explanation Sandy Trummel's 

 mishap Brig-end Pool Boat sunk Michael Scott A 

 hint to proprietors of rivers The otter Twae can play 

 at that The keeper of the regalia The author backs 

 out, and bids farewell ....... 246 



APPENDIX 



Modern Tweed flies The fly and the fish The story of 



salmon scales The scale formula and mouth test . 268 



INDEX .......... 279 



