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forethought of many previous days to get a 

 ' spawning kit ' together. Here is -a list of 

 my kit : — 1. Nets. On this occasion I took 

 with me one long, heavy trammel, and two 

 smaller trammels. 2. Two landing nets, one 

 gigantic fellow, the other smaller. 3. Tins, 

 viz. one big spawning tin and two egg-carriers. 

 4. Box of bottles for eggs. 5. Ten wooden 

 boxes to pack the eggs by the river-side. 6. 

 Two sacks of sphagnum moss. 7. Glass 

 catchers to pick up the eggs, and a glass con- 

 tained just 1000 eggs. 8. Coil of the best 

 rope and string. 9. Lady's wicker travel- 

 ling-basket for holding live salmon. 10. 

 Wading trousers and diver's india-rubber dress. 

 11. Ordinary luggage. 



" Thus equipped, I started on Monday last 

 for Newcastle — wrote all the way in the train, 

 of course. Arrived at Newcastle, took train 

 to Chollerford, where my friend, Mr. John 

 Eidley, chairman of North Tyne committee, 

 had kindly made all the arrangements for 

 me. The next morning, a drive of eleven 

 miles to Bellingham, and thence by train 

 to Keedsmouth. We dressed ourselves in the 

 station, and proceeded to find the head of 



