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screw is a hideous and venomous-looking animal, 

 which is fixed on a particular kind of tackle, and 

 cast up stream with a short line. The heaviest 

 trout are fond of it, but it can only be used at 

 a season when either school or Oxford keeps one 

 far from what old Franck, Walton's contemporary, 



a Cromwellian trooper, calls ' the glittering and 

 resolute streams of Tweed.' 



Difficult as it is, that river is so beautiful and 

 alluring that it scarcely needs the attractions of 

 sport. The steep banks, beautifully wooded, and 

 in spring one mass of primroses, are crowned here 



