ANGLING REMINISCENCES. 89 



This very fictitious chapter is evidently the joint compo- 

 sition of Harry Hackle and Bill May-fly, who appear 

 to have written it on the day of the competition, and 

 while watching, in company with Tim Gaff, an array of 

 pike trimmers floating along the reedy margins of Loch 

 . Their success was limited, but they professed 

 to have derived considerable amusement from the num- 

 ber of nibbles they encountered, and which Tom Otter 

 thought fit, greatly to their wrath and vexation, to at- 

 tribute to one small-headed, but particularly hungry 

 eel. 



