border-burns

Updated: May 31, 2025

When, O stranger, thou hast reached a burn where the shepherd asks thee for the newspaper wrapped round thy sandwiches, that he may read the news, then erect an altar to Priapus, god of fishermen, and begin to angle boldly. Probably the troops who fish our Border-burns still manage to toss out some dozens of tiny fishes, some six or eight to the pound.

Andrew Lang - Angling Sketches