14 ANGLING REMINISCENCES. 



to give a very ludicrous effect to all attempts at 

 seriousness on the part of those with whom he hap- 

 pened to be consorted. Mr Guddle died of apoplexy 

 in the seventy-third year of his age. A most erro- 

 neous report was, however, circulated, that being 

 bitten by a water-rat while engaged in ransacking a 

 small burn close to Brosy-beck Ha', he was seized 

 with hydrophobia a few days after. This statement, 

 we aver, upon the authority of his medical attend- 

 ant, to be totally incorrect. 



Such is the amount of all our recollections with 



regard to the pristine fraternity at C h. Alas, 



all its patriarchs have returned to their fathers! 

 Ged-grapple was shot dead by an exciseman, hav- 

 ing resisted the seizure of some illegal spirits which 

 he had in his possession ; and Sir Amalek All-gab 

 cleared a road into his coffin by cutting his own 

 throat, which it seems he was not allowed to make 

 unlimited use of during a contested election. As 

 for the other members, having forgotten their 

 names, we have also forgotten their fates. Should 

 there be one alive, from our heart we compassion- 

 ate him. But why, when old men have no affections 

 like the young when their remembrances are 

 closely sealed up, and ours open afresh, we some- 

 times know not wherefore when how unlike us ! 

 they look upon the world without anxiety, and their 

 fears of parting from it are all time-subdued ? Pity 

 them ! Ay ! nevertheless we do, even because they 

 are so deserted by the glad springs of feeling, be- 



