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Identifier: scotland00grie (find matches)
Title: Scotland
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Grierson, Elizabeth Wilson
Subjects: Scotland -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : A. and C. Black
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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essing it with her nose, and when the docile little creature has curled itself up like a dog, with its nose against its tail, she leaves it alone for hours. But she keeps within reach, and always takes care to be on the windward side of it, so that if a fox or a polecat should come stealing up, eager to have a nice tender meal, she scents them at once, and comes bounding up to protect her baby. As the little deer grows bigger it is called a calf, and when it is old enough, and strong enough, it joins the herd, and soon learns to take care of itself. CHAPTER XVI SALMON-FISHING s IF you ever happen to travel from England to Scotlandby the East Coast route, you will cross the Tweed at Berwick, and if you look out of the train as it rumbles across the high railway-bridge which spans the river, you will most likely see, far below you, a little group of fishermen pulling a net out of the water. Indeed, if you have the good luck to be crossing the bridge just at the right moment, you may see the end of the
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(Salmon-Fishing net being pulled to the bunk, and in it there may be six or seven great silvery fish, some of them almost ayard long. For these men are salmon fishermen, and the salmon which they catch well deserve the name of king of fresh water fishes, which was given to them many years ago by an old Englishman named Izaak Walton, who was a great fisher, and who wrote a book all about fishing; for they are good to look at, and good to eat, and good to sell. Indeed, the sale of the silvery salmon, which are so plentiful in all her large rivers, has been a source of prosperity to Scotland from the earliest days. So far bac kas seven hundred years ago people used to fish in the Dee and the Tay for these enormous fish, and, when they had caught them, they salted them, and took them across the sea to Flanders, and Holland, and Normandy, and exchanged them for fine Flemish cloth, and wine from the French vineyards. And besides supplying the Scottish people with these luxuries from abroad, this useful f

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