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Page xiv
... answered its purpose , so will the Notes themselves , if they at all tend to promote a love for Fishing and Natural History . He must indeed be a churl , who would not wish to see his friends participate in the great pleasures which ...
... answered its purpose , so will the Notes themselves , if they at all tend to promote a love for Fishing and Natural History . He must indeed be a churl , who would not wish to see his friends participate in the great pleasures which ...
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... answer every purpose : but for use off weirs , or from the bank where the water runs shallow near the shore , or is grown up with reeds , it is generally advisable to have a somewhat longer one . Cane is the best material for the whole ...
... answer every purpose : but for use off weirs , or from the bank where the water runs shallow near the shore , or is grown up with reeds , it is generally advisable to have a somewhat longer one . Cane is the best material for the whole ...
Page 12
... answer the purpose , but that I have mentioned will ensure the bait spinning well , if properly put on , and save your gut from be- coming at all twisted . In trailing , when the bait is kept spinning a long while continuously , and the ...
... answer the purpose , but that I have mentioned will ensure the bait spinning well , if properly put on , and save your gut from be- coming at all twisted . In trailing , when the bait is kept spinning a long while continuously , and the ...
Page 27
... answer very well . It should be sewn in a round shape , so as to resemble a sand - eel as much as possible . If a piece of silver tinsel be twisted round it , so much the better . If sewn on one of the Archime- dean bait tackles ( those ...
... answer very well . It should be sewn in a round shape , so as to resemble a sand - eel as much as possible . If a piece of silver tinsel be twisted round it , so much the better . If sewn on one of the Archime- dean bait tackles ( those ...
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... answer very well for floating off live- baits with . If there is a boat on the water , they need not be fastened to the shore . If not , it will be generally necessary to have them made fast to a line , which should be kept from sinking ...
... answer very well for floating off live- baits with . If there is a boat on the water , they need not be fastened to the shore . If not , it will be generally necessary to have them made fast to a line , which should be kept from sinking ...
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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...