Scottish Fish We still await in southern and easterly England
the rising of the wells and the re-emergence of the valley springs. No sign is yet vouchsafed of recovery from the longest drought in the chronicles. Some of the streams that spring in the Chilterns are so muddy that the very life of imported trout is threatened. ' In respect of recovery from the famine, the Scots and their salmon are in happier ease. The Ness—to quote one river much in the news—is as well off as the Lea is depressed.. The Tweed—that " tieorius amiss "—has been almost in flood, and Scottish fishermen are promised, by the bolder prophets, one of the best of early fishing seasons, in spite of the threat of prehistoric monsters (or grey seals) with a taste for fish. One of the problems that the Scottish Fishery Board and its research workers have yet to fathom is why some rivers are early and some later. I knew one most ardent fisherman, who, 'iming to prove that his river (in West Ireland) was an early river, would flog its waters for eight hours, months before the fish began to run up ! Years of ill success did little to weaken his conviction.-
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