The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-09-04

salmon they find in the center. There are
six or eight men at this work day and night
for each net. The salmon and trout thus
captured are conveyed to the Scotch side of
the old bridge each morning and sold to
BUYERS on tho spot, who dispatch the
precious catch to London and Manchester
and The big cities 1t is a monopoly rs Tar
as Berwick is concerned. Not single
salmon is allowed to be sold in sections In
the town. 1t must be an entire salmon or
there is no salmon. But in the close season
there Is a change in the scene. Almost
every salmon fisher becomes poacher AS
In all rivers, there are salmon in the Tweed
throughout the year, and perhaps al good
in the close as 10 the open season. Men
who are only paid Sf 80 a week and who
have wives and children to support are not
likely TO trouble themselves about the
equities OF salmon poaching They catch
fish in the river and along the shore, and
leave the equities of the action to those who
are subtle in the law OF landlords. AlIup
the river salmon poaching is prevalent. The
poaciers ask what right landlords have to
yalua bic fish which they feed not, and
which only century ago were as common
place as minnows in the south OF Scotland.
and were stipulated against IS diet by
farm labOrers. The landlords have changed
their tone They let the fishing to anglers
and receive large SUMS from men who hsh
for pleasure and commerce. Is it any won
uer Iuat podcnihR tuIlfes uHueI suCh oSs
tenn?
1t would be tedions history to even glance
at the "reminiscences Of a long stretch OF
Tweedside. But we may skip much to say
word about Flodden Field, on the south of
the Tweed. James ~ of Scotland met hls
doom on that mournful battle ground, and
with him persisted a representative from
almost every noble family in Scotland.
James invaded England in 1913, and in Sep
TENDER of that year he camped on the crown
of rising ground called FlOdden with an
army of 81, 600 He had many advantages.
but strangely neglected them. The Eng
lish, scarcely stronger force, under the
Earl of Surrey, crossed the IN unoppose0
and cut off the Scotch from Scotland, and
then they swarmed up the rounded summit
of Flodden and subordinate BranscOmbe,
and routed the Kings army with slaugh-
ter which survives in tradition by its merci-
lessneSs. Scott describes the story In Mar
mlon" with enough of truth to give ro-
nance skeleton Looking at FiOd-
den to-day "a peaceful.s tree crowned
knoll in an agricultural country, one can
understand what is meant by turning spears
into pruning hooks or pl0wshares. The
little summit, adown which blood flowed
and where bodies must have rotted IN reek-
ing stencil under the autumn sun, Is now
thicket of bracken and wood, with here and
there walks ZigZagging to please the curious
and the Ioquacious in history. Some one
has created the we'll of Sybil Gray, in defer
ence to SCOTS lines
Drink weary pilgrim,
Drink and pray
For the kind soul OF Sybi Gray
Who built this cross aud welt.
And Scott himself noted. with gratifica-
ton, that in the vicinity, soon after the ap-
pearauce of the poem, some one had made
use OF the lines a a public-hOuse sign. The
well on Flodden supplies water; the public.