DESCRIPTIVE LIST 



OF THE 



TBIBUTARIES OP THE TWEED, 



FOR TROUT ANGLERS. 



BY THE EDITOR. 



THE TWEED is a fine treating river from head to 

 foot, and it is nearly 100 miles in length. Though 

 a longer walk has often to be made from stream 

 to stream than may be required on smaller rivers, 

 the angler has generally the consolation of seeing 

 in the long wide-spreading streams of the Tweed 

 a few hours' respite from pedestrianism. Trout too 

 are plentiful and large ; and on none of the tribu- 

 taries are the appellatives descriptive of large trout 

 so frequently brought into play as on the Tweed. 

 What would Mr. Briggs or his Cockney friends 

 make of terms like these : wauper, skelper, bum- 

 mer, whauker, pinner, yerker, whupper, and the 

 juvenile exclamation aigh ! sic a ane ! And re- 

 lative to large trout, these are terms in common use 

 on the " canny " side of the Tweed. 



