EASY-CHAIR MEMORIES I I I 



"North: 'You will all be sorry to hear that 

 our worthy friend Watty is laid up with a bad 

 rheumatism, and can no longer fish the Megget 

 water and the lochs and return to Peebles in 

 the same day.' 



" Shepherd : ' That's what a' your waders 

 come to at last. Had it not been, Mr. North, 

 for your plowterin in a' the rivers and lochs of 

 Scotland, baith saut water and fresh, like a 

 Newfoundland dog, or, rather, a seal or an 

 otter, you needna had that crutch aneath 

 your oxter. Corrnall Cyril, saw ye him ever 

 a-fishm'?' 



" Thornton : l Never but once, for want of 

 better ground, in the Crinan Canal, out of 

 a coal barge for braisies, when I was a red- 

 gowned student at Glasgow/ 



"Shepherd: 'Oh! but you should hae seen 

 him in Loch Owe, or the Spey. In he used 

 to gang, out, out, and ever so far out frae the pint 

 o' a promontory, sinking aye furder and furder 

 down, fust to the waistband o' his breeks, then 

 up to the middle button o' his waistcoat, 

 then to the verra breast, then to the oxters, 

 then to the neck, then to the verra chin o' 

 him; sae that you wannered how he could 



