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Auld Licht Idylls

CHAPTER II
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There is very little beer drunk, and whisky is only consumed in privacy.
Life in the bothies is not, I should say, so lonely as life at the schoolhouse, for the hands have at least each other's company.

The hawker visits them frequently still, though the itinerant tailor, once a familiar figure, has almost vanished.

Their great place of congregating is still some country smiddy, which is also their frequent meeting-place when bent on black-fishing.

The flare of the black-fisher's torch still attracts salmon to their death in the rivers near Thrums; and you may hear in the glens on a dark night the rattle of the spears on the wet stones.

Twenty or thirty years ago, however, the sport was much more common.


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