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Page xviii
... Salmon and Sea - trout — A singular trio - Salmon detained in Salt - water become diseased - Artificial " Spate " for Salmon - Salmon passively following the line when hooked CHAPTER VII . Fishing from Steamers - Whiting near the ...
... Salmon and Sea - trout — A singular trio - Salmon detained in Salt - water become diseased - Artificial " Spate " for Salmon - Salmon passively following the line when hooked CHAPTER VII . Fishing from Steamers - Whiting near the ...
Page 28
... Salmon , him- self went out on a lake adjoining the house , trail- ing a spoon - bait , and surprised them , on their return with empty creels , by exhibiting two clean Salmon which he had caught there with it . It will be well worth ...
... Salmon , him- self went out on a lake adjoining the house , trail- ing a spoon - bait , and surprised them , on their return with empty creels , by exhibiting two clean Salmon which he had caught there with it . It will be well worth ...
Page 37
... salmon when lying at the bottom in rivers : -it is then called " stroke - hauling . " Grasshoppers , two put on back to back , form by no means a bad bait for Carp late in the sum- mer , but then they should be suspended by the float ...
... salmon when lying at the bottom in rivers : -it is then called " stroke - hauling . " Grasshoppers , two put on back to back , form by no means a bad bait for Carp late in the sum- mer , but then they should be suspended by the float ...
Page 45
... Salmon , and their condition , when in season , being such , that the under side of one of four or five pounds ordinarily exhibits a coating of fat perhaps a quarter of an inch in thickness . There can surely be no reason why breeds of ...
... Salmon , and their condition , when in season , being such , that the under side of one of four or five pounds ordinarily exhibits a coating of fat perhaps a quarter of an inch in thickness . There can surely be no reason why breeds of ...
Page 70
... salmon - line , and often untwisted so as rather to resemble mop - yarn than what it pretends to be , this roughly tied on coarse rusty hooks , and the rest of his apparatus clumsy to match . Now such a person need scarcely be re ...
... salmon - line , and often untwisted so as rather to resemble mop - yarn than what it pretends to be , this roughly tied on coarse rusty hooks , and the rest of his apparatus clumsy to match . Now such a person need scarcely be re ...
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Page xiii - But the Nightingale, another of my airy creatures, breathes such sweet loud music out of her little instrumental throat, that it might make mankind to think miracles are not ceased. He that at midnight, when the very labourer sleeps securely, should hear, as I have very often, the clear airs, the sweet descants, the natural rising and falling, the doubling and redoubling of her voice, might well be lifted above earth, and say, 'Lord, what music hast thou provided for the Saints in Heaven, when thou...