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Lang, Andrew (1844-1912)

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Scots wha fish wi' salmon roe,
Scots wha sniggle as ye go,
Will ye stand the Bailie? No!
Let the limmer die!

Now's the day and now's the time,
Poison a' the burns wi' lime,
Fishing fair's a dastard crime,
We're for fishing free!

Introduction to Walton's Compleat Angler, p. lviii (Dent, 1896).