128 A FISHER-DOG. [PART I. 
side, and awkward to get at on the other, it is 
almost useless to attempt spinning it from the 
shore. 
A shooting-lodge, which I occupied with some 
friends for'a couple of seasons close to a sea-loch, 
in Ross-shire, has been mentioned elsewhere in 
these pages. One of the principal dependents (in 
his own estimation) attached to it was a stocky 
little yellow terrier, not smooth, nor of the shag- 
giest, but of a kind of intermediate roughness, 
whose two chief personal characteristics were a sin- 
gular bunch of light yellow hair, about an inch 
and a half long, projecting from the outer corner 
of each eye, which gave him a very grotesque 
appearance ; and the determination with which, 
never keeping more than three legs in work at 
the same time (as is the habit of such dogs) he 
changed from one hind leg to the other at every 
two steps when on the march. 
Although he took a great interest in all field- 
sports in which he had an opportunity of joining, 
yet fishing was the one which possessed for him 
the most particular attractions, and in which he 
principally excelled. His proper owner, who 
resided at a considerable distance, had formerly 
lent him to the keeper, when, having once tasted 
