A BORDER BOYHOOD ' 25 



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 onlj' 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 ri\-er is so beautiful and 

 alluring that it scared)- needs the attractions of 

 sport. The steep banks, beautifully wooded, and 

 in spring one mass of primroses, are crowned here 



