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when the breeze stiffening, \ve were fortunate 

 enough to capture several good-sized trout and a 

 brace of noble salmon. Here we were shewn a fish 

 weighing fourteen pounds, of the ordinary loch va- 

 riety, which had been taken during the previous day 

 by means of a spinning bait. It was reckoned a fair 

 pattern of build in a trout of its dimensions, but 

 did not strike me as nearly so magnificent a fish as 

 the salmoferox of Loch Awe, of which your club, 

 gentlemen, possesses such an admirable specimen. 

 I have caught trout from our English waters, which 

 struck me as infinitely more attractive in form, 

 and not a whit inferior to it in complexion. 



May. To my mind, bulk is the prime matter, 

 Master Wandle-weir, I account the beauty of a 

 fish as nothing, provided it weigh like a mill-stone. 



Swivel. Betake thee to the Arctics, Bill, and 

 " bob for whales." 



May. Not yet, Doctor, not yet I am in nowise 

 weary of thy company. But pardon our interrup- 

 tion. 



Wandle. It would be tiresome, gentlemen, to all 

 parties were I to detail circumstantially the nume- 

 rous excursions Mr Herl-broke and myself engaged 

 in during our stay at Fort- Augustus. The Garry, 

 Morriston, Oich, Foyers, Coiltie, and Enneric, were 

 all visited in succession, nor did we neglect running 

 a fly over two or three of the best reputed lochs, 

 situated in the surrounding district of country. 

 Fish, of course, were not always on the fin, and we 



