Peter Tamson, Elder O the Kirk and Sportsman (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Peter Tamson, Elder O the Kirk and SportsmanAye, but he's a bonny ted, sax pun' if he's an ounce.It was a glorious afternoon in June, and Peter's lust for trout was satisfied by the full basket of speckled beauties which lay by his side on the bank.He crawled to the edge of the stream, and, hidden by an overhanging bush, lay in rapture and watched the monster fish.How graceful he was! Peter was an ardent admirer of the beautiful in nature.) now, with a lightning ¿ash of his tail, he soared upwards to pouch a fat ¿y on the surface, now he sank with aldermanic complacency to his lair in the reed bed, his fins moving just enough to keep his ground. He was a beauty.Peter crawled back to his rod and basket, took out and loaded a capacious clay pipe, and began to puff fiercely. His hand stole, itching, to his rod, and then guiltily fell back.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.