194 SPORTS AND ANECDOTES. 



This dainty fish. Moreover, the day 

 Must not be bright, old fishers say, 

 But rather cloudy, and the wind 

 Is best at south or west. You'll find 

 In other winds, I know not why, 

 The fish are generally shy." 



As the purport of this*, my humble attempt to 

 amuse, is not only to state what I have seen and 

 done myself, but also to relate any anecdotes that 

 have been vouched for by those who have related 

 them to me, and who have allowed me to put them 

 into my book of facts, with their names attached in 

 their own handwriting. I will begin with a story of 

 an eagle and a salmon, which a gentleman related 

 to me some years since, and which, unless he had 

 signed it, I could not, and would not, have believed. 

 It runs thus : 



" EAGLE KILLED BY A SALMON. 



" In the year 1848, at Morvin, in the county of 

 Argyll, I saw an eagle perch on the branch of a 

 willow tree overhanging a river, whose name I for- 

 get, close to the water. Astonished at seeing him, 

 I watched him, and saw him make a strike at some- 

 thing, which proved to be a salmon. The fish, upon 

 feeling his claws, darted off, and from the bird 



