BANK NOTES.
At dinner at Christmas, or New Year old style, many of the Highland chieftains in the good old times had on the table a large freshrun salmon, which no dojubt " gaed doon fine" with the usqubaebaugh, -which went the round xlike water on thtese high occasions. The Earls of Aboyne, the Lords qf Reay, the Chiefs of Gairloch, Dundonnell, (glengarry, Lochiel, the Lairds of Grant, tbe Barons of Braickley, and many others — all had thf biggest salmon that could be got served up wpole. It is not said whether there wa's an annual close time in those days. In any case it would have been beneath tho dignity of such powerful potentates as those mentioned to ask leave to provide themselves with a most important part of the dinner on the occasion of their high carousal at tho winter solstice. Might with them was right. — The Fishing Gazotte.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1989, 7 April 1892, Page 32
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150BANK NOTES. Otago Witness, Issue 1989, 7 April 1892, Page 32
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