The Border Angler: A Guide-book to the Tweed and Its Tributaries and the Other Streams Commanded by the North British Railway ; with an Accurate Map of the District |
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Abbey amongst angler angling bait ballad banks basket believe Berwick Blackadder border Bridge Buccleuch bull-trout burn captured cast Castle caught clean salmon close-time Coldstream course creel district Duke Dunse Earl Edinburgh Ellemford Ettrick Fasney favourable fish flies flood Floors Castle flows fly-fishing four miles Gala Galashiels Geordie glen grilse Hawick Heriot hills hook inhabitants Innerleithen James Hogg Jedburgh Kelso kelts killed Kirk large trout leister loch Longformacus Lord Mary's Meggat Melrose minnow mouth North British North British Railway North Esk passed Peebles perhaps pike poachers pools pound practised preserved pretty probably proprietors Rachan Mill railway river rod-fishing Roxburghshire salmon salmon-fishing Scotch Scott season Selkirk side smolt spawning sport Sprouston station Stoddart stream tackle taken Teviot three miles Tibbie Tibbie's town tributaries trout trout-fishing Tushilaw Tweed Tweedside Tyne upper vale village Whitadder worm worm-fishing Yarrow
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Page 46 - May numerous herds and flocks be seen : And lasses chanting o'er the pail, And shepherds piping in the dale ; And ancient faith that knows no guile, And industry embrown'd with toil ; And hearts resolved and hands prepared The blessings they enjoy to guard 1 [S
Page 120 - And they twa met, and they twa plat, And fain they wad be near ; And a' the warld might ken right weel, They were twa lovers dear.
Page 151 - Of pendent trees, the monarch of the brook, Behoves you then to ply your finest art. Long time he, following cautious, scans the fly, And oft attempts to seize it, but as oft The dimpled water speaks his jealous fear.
Page 70 - A TROUBLE, not of clouds, or weeping rain, Nor of the setting sun's pathetic light Engendered, hangs o'er Eildon's triple height : Spirits of Power, assembled there, complain For kindred Power departing from their sight ; While Tweed, best pleased in chanting a blithe strain, Saddens his voice again, and yet again.
Page 151 - With eye attentive mark the springing game. Straight as above the surface of the flood They wanton rise, or urged by hunger leap, Then fix, with gentle twitch the barbed hook : Some lightly tossing to the grassy bank, And to the shelving shore slow dragging some, With various hand proportion'd to their force.
Page 151 - The cavern'd bank, his old secure abode; And flies aloft, and flounces round the pool, Indignant of the guile.
Page 146 - An interesting fragment had been obtained of an ancient historical ballad ; but the remainder, to the great disturbance of the editor and his coadjutor, was not to be recovered. Two days afterwards, while the editor was sitting with some company after dinner, a sound was heard at a distance like that of the whistling of a tempest through the torn rio-ging of the vessel which scuds before it.
Page 151 - Just in the dubious point, where with the pool Is mixed the trembling stream, or where it boils Around the stone, or from the hollow'd bank, Reverted plays in undulating flow, There throw, nice-judging, the delusive fly : And, as you lead it round in artful curve, With eye attentive mark the springing game.
Page 193 - Because hawking and hunting are very laborious, much riding, and many dangers accompany them; but this is still and quiet: and if so be the angler catch no fish, yet he hath a wholesome walk to the brookside, pleasant shade by the sweet silver streams; he hath good air, and sweet smells of fine fresh meadow flowers, he hears the melodious harmony of birds, he sees the swans, herons, ducks, water-horns, coots, &c., and many other fowl, with their brood, which he thinketh better than the noise of hounds,...
Page 68 - Mr Mackenzie, at this time in the 76th year of his age, with a white hat turned up with green, green spectacles, green jacket, and long brown leathern gaiters buttoned upon his nether anatomy, wore a dog-whistle round his neck, and had all over the air of as resolute a devotee as the gay captain of Huntly Burn.