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events, people who do not put a padlock on their 

 baskets ought to put one on their mouths. 



Some anglers have also a habit of characteris- 

 ing large takes as butchery ; the point where sport 

 stops and butchery commences lying about the 

 individual's greatest take. We cannot see the jus- 

 tice of an opinion that considers the capture of a 

 certain number of trout sport, and of twice that 

 number taken by the same means butchery. If 

 the sport of angling lies in the capture of fish, it 

 seems evident that the more fish the better sport ; 

 and it is our intention to treat of the different 

 branches of angling solely with the view of showing 

 how the greatest weight of trout can be captured in 

 a given time. There are not many days from May 

 till October, in which an angler, thoroughly versed 

 in all the mysteries of the craft, should not kill at 

 least twelve pounds weight of trout in any county 

 in the south of Scotland, not excepting Edinburgh- 

 shire itself ; and to describe the way in which this 

 may be done is our object in this small volume. 



