A month in Mayo. With miscellaneous papers1876 |
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... salmon for dinner , fresh , hard , curdy salmon , such as had never before gratified my palate ; the sauce , the liquor in which it had been boiled . Was it that Honor had caught the fish , or was it really the most delicious fish I had ...
... salmon for dinner , fresh , hard , curdy salmon , such as had never before gratified my palate ; the sauce , the liquor in which it had been boiled . Was it that Honor had caught the fish , or was it really the most delicious fish I had ...
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... flesh , and fowl , salmon , chops , and grouse , tea and coffee , eggs , milk , and honey ; conspicuous above all , the bright shells of half a dozen small lobsters , peeping with their round black eyes 14 " THE SMALL STILL . "
... flesh , and fowl , salmon , chops , and grouse , tea and coffee , eggs , milk , and honey ; conspicuous above all , the bright shells of half a dozen small lobsters , peeping with their round black eyes 14 " THE SMALL STILL . "
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... salmon fishing . Our course , for a considerable distance , lay along the pleasant banks of the river , which , still swollen and turbid from the recent rains , my companion averred would be in fine order for fishing by the afternoon ...
... salmon fishing . Our course , for a considerable distance , lay along the pleasant banks of the river , which , still swollen and turbid from the recent rains , my companion averred would be in fine order for fishing by the afternoon ...
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... pages of Land and Water ; the result being its complete vindication from the charge of devouring the eggs of salmon , which had been ignorantly laid to its charge . C " Bad luck to thim crows , " he muttered " THE SMALL STILL . " 17.
... pages of Land and Water ; the result being its complete vindication from the charge of devouring the eggs of salmon , which had been ignorantly laid to its charge . C " Bad luck to thim crows , " he muttered " THE SMALL STILL . " 17.
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... salmon , which I took up , and much wondering at the cause of its transportation to so unlikely a spot , conveyed to Larry . That individual was by no means at a loss to account for an occurrence which had so mystified me : " The ...
... salmon , which I took up , and much wondering at the cause of its transportation to so unlikely a spot , conveyed to Larry . That individual was by no means at a loss to account for an occurrence which had so mystified me : " The ...
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Page 115 - Yet," upon the river; Some jealousy of some one's heir, Some hopes of dying broken-hearted; A miniature, a lock of hair, The usual vows, — and then we parted. We parted: months and years rolled by; We met again four summers after. Our parting was all sob and sigh, — Our meeting was all mirth and laughter; For, in my heart's most secret cell, There had been many other lodgers; And she was not the ball-room's belle, But only Mrs. — Something — Rogers!