Cow Feasts on Angler’s Prize Salmon and Tops Off Lunch With Trout He Flung at Her.
    The angler could cast a fly, and had caught trout in the south of England, but had never so much as seen a salmon river. Great was his joy, therefore, when one day he received an invitation to fish one of the most famous spring salmon rivers in the north of Scotland, relates the field. In the very first cast that he tried he hooked and landed his first salmon-a ten pounder.
    The first salmon is always the most perfect and beautiful that ever was seen, and the angler reflected that if he carried his fish in the bag all day it would dry and lose its lovely sheen. On the top of the brae there was a marshy nook that would answer his purpose admirably. He deposited his treasure in this nest and having covered it with a thick layer of rushes, went on his way.
    The rest of the day he caught nothing except a half-pound trout. Still he was very happy and content as he turned homeward, and whistled merrily as he approached the marshy nook. But there he found a Highland cow in the act of consuming his salmon, of which little remained except the head and tail. In his anger he flung the trout savagely at the cow, hitting her fully in the face; but so far from taking offence, she seemed rather to think that he had brought her a bonne bouche wherewith to complete the feast, for, after gazing at him for a moment with the innocent, confiding eyes of her kind, she contently swallowed the trout.
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