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wecht. Oh, Mr. North, but it wad hae done 

 your heart gude to hae daundered along the 

 banks wi' me on the 25th and seen the 

 slauchter. At the third thraw the snout o' 

 a famous fish sookit in ma flee, and for some 

 seconds keepit stedfast in a sort o' eddy that 

 gaed sullenly swirlin' at the tail o' yon pool 

 I needna name't. The flee began to bite him 

 on the tongue, for by a jerk o' the wrist I had 

 slightly gien him the butt an' sunbeam never 

 swifter shot frae heaven, than shot that saumon 

 beam down intil an' out i' the pool below, and 

 along the saugh-shallows or you come to Jumper 

 Bank. Clap clap clap at the same instant 

 played a couple o' cushets frae an aik aboon 

 my head, a the purr tf the pirn, that let out in 

 a twinkling a hunner yards of Mr. Phin's best ; 

 strang aneuch to haud a cill or a rhinoceros.' " 



James Hogg was born in 1772 and died 

 in 1835. 



