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of merely a good ducking ; or to be fished 

 up in a salmon net, somewhere about Till- 

 mouth, a fortnight after. The dangerous 

 character of the Till as a " deadly water/' 

 is expressed in the following old lines, which 

 every gentleman should call to mind before 

 he puts his horse to the ford in a flood : 



" Tweed says to Till, 



' What gars ye rin sae still V 

 ' Sae still as I rin, and sae fast as ye gae, 

 Where ye drown ae man, I drown twae/ " 



Should the angler be fond of antiquarian 

 researches, let him, some clear sun-shiny 

 day when the fish will not bite, ascend the 

 curious hill near Wooler, called the Yevering 

 Bell, and make his own observations on the 

 ancient remains still existing on its summit, 

 and form his own conjectures as to their 

 former design and the people by whom they 

 were erected. When fishing up Wooler Burn, 

 it will also be worth his while to walk across 

 the country from Langley ford to the 

 Druidical remains a few miles west of 

 Ilderton. 



