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home of Mosstrooper 3rd, we found that Mr. Beattie 

 vras almost off with his old love, and in a most spirited 

 attitude of defiance on the subject of salmon. From 

 a mound near his house you see seven counties and 

 and seven miles of salmon nets. He considers this 

 shore '^the mother of trap or stake nets/^ and he is 

 lessee of the coast from Lochar Foot to about three- 

 quarters of a mile east of Annan. He defies Par- 

 liament, the Carlisle Journal, and every other 

 "proud invader" ; and leans his back, like a man 

 and a Briton, against his " chartered rights of fish- 

 ing beyond time immemorial" 



Get him on that subject, and he is as diffuse 

 as a Blue Book. At all events, he still holds 

 his trap nets against the world, as he told us he 

 should, and so far he is the winner. The best fish 

 come up mth the tide and the south-west breeze. 

 They feed along the beach in warm and cloudy days, 

 and then return into the deep beyond Eobin Bigg. 

 In fact, "the speckled monarch of the tide" now 

 reigns supreme at Newbie. Still, the greyhound. 

 Baron Solway, once a great favourite on the Bor- 

 der, and the winner of £144?, runs about the 

 yard ; the shorthorn cow, Roan Cherry by Booth^s 

 Cardigan, was in the stalls with Captain Marshall 

 from t he Howes ; Belted Will, one of the last 

 of the "black Brunswickers," w^s on the ruined 

 keep near the old castle garden, and Brides- 

 maid and Bridal Bed had not yet quitted the 

 spot. 



