"We'll catch fish enough for our supper, for I'm a don with a rod, as you'll see." Noo, I believed that I was strictly veracious when I said that, even though I think I had never held a rod in my hand.

But I had seen many a man fishing, and it had always seemed to me the easiest thing in the world a man could do.

So forth we fared together, and found the boat the landlord had promised us, and the tackle, and the bait.

I'll no say whether we took ought else--'tis none of your affair, you'll ken! Nor am I making confession to the wife, syne she reads all I write, whether abody else does so or nicht.
The loch was verra beautiful.

So were the fish, I'm never doubting, but for that yell hae to do e'en as did Mac and I--tak' the landlord's word for 't.