Lang, Andrew, Burn-Murdoch, W. G. (Illus.) · Longmans, Green and Co. (London) · leaf 50
30 ANGLING SKETCHES there is a burn on the Border still undiscovered, still full of greedy trout. I shall give the angler such a hint of its whereabouts as Tiresias, in Hades, gave to Odysseus concerning the end of … When, O stranger, thou hast reached a burn where the shepherd asks thee for the newspaper wrapped round thy sandwiches, that he may read the news, then erect an altar to Priapus, god of fishermen, and begin to angle boldly.
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