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into a pond, and, when examined about a 

 year after, had all the appearances of salmon. 



Reed. I have heard so too; and I have 

 heard old Jamie How say, and stoutly swear 

 to it, that he put a horse-hair into the Piper's 

 well, and that it turned to an eel ; but until 

 these " interesting facts," as the newspaper 

 folks say, are confirmed by stronger evidence, 

 I must continue to doubt their correctness. 



Oliver. Is the whitling taken in any other 

 streams in this part of the country except 

 the Till? 



Reed. Not in Northumberland, that I am 

 aware of; but it is caught in the Whitadder, 

 a small river which runs into the Tweed 

 a few miles below Tillmouth, on the oppo- 

 site side. The whitling is also taken in 

 several of the rivers on the south-western 

 border of Scotland ; in the Liddel, the Esk, 

 the Annan, and the Nith, as well as in 

 the Eden below Carlisle. In Dumfrieshire 

 they are mostly called herlings, and in Cum- 

 berland whittens. Farther north, in the 



