With nature and a camera; being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer . ht on the line had actuallytouched the water. Directly he discovered that allthings are not quite what they seem he dived witha tremendous rush. Tlie suddenness of the jerkmade the line spin through my hand so fast tliatmy fingers were hot with the friction. By the time we reached the end of tlie Doon,the bottom of the boat was covered from stem tostern with dead fish of all sizes. My bootless feetand legs were wet and cold to the knees, but Iwas entirely oblivious of any feeling
With nature and a camera; being the adventures and observations of a field naturalist and an animal photographer . ht on the line had actuallytouched the water. Directly he discovered that allthings are not quite what they seem he dived witha tremendous rush. Tlie suddenness of the jerkmade the line spin through my hand so fast tliatmy fingers were hot with the friction. By the time we reached the end of tlie Doon,the bottom of the boat was covered from stem tostern with dead fish of all sizes. My bootless feetand legs were wet and cold to the knees, but Iwas entirely oblivious of any feeling of discomfortwhilst the sport lasted. After fishing for a little over an hour, w^e rowedhomewards across the bay. I kept the ministerscatch separate; and when I counted my own upontlie beach, I had seventeen Coalfisli of an aggre-gate weight of something between (nw. liundred andeighty and two hundred ])ounds. News was sent up to the village tluit tliere wasplenty of fish on the beach for everybody, and anuniljcr of boys quickly trooped down to tlie Imid-ing ]>lace for a share, liefore any part of my catch. 70 WITH NATURE AND A CAMERA. was taken away, however, I sent for my brother,and although it w^as very late in the evening hemanaged to j^hotograpli me and my trophies. When Sandy Campbell saw the boys draggingthe fish past om- cottage, he told me that he re-collected the time when the St. Kildans would noteat it, as they said it had no substance (oil) in simply took the liver out of such as they
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