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... RIVER FISHING G. Christopher Davies . THE CULTIVATION OF ' COARSE FISH ' ос R. B. Marston . THE REARING OF BLACK BASS , AND PISCICULTURAL EXPERIMENTS AT BURGHLEY The Marquis of Exeter . INDEX 335 352 376 390 407 NOTE . If it is desired ...
... RIVER FISHING G. Christopher Davies . THE CULTIVATION OF ' COARSE FISH ' ос R. B. Marston . THE REARING OF BLACK BASS , AND PISCICULTURAL EXPERIMENTS AT BURGHLEY The Marquis of Exeter . INDEX 335 352 376 390 407 NOTE . If it is desired ...
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... river has now become almost as expensive a luxury as a grouse moor or a deer forest ) , and partly also because the art is now pursued with greatly improved appliances . We live in times in which , as I observed in the first page of the ...
... river has now become almost as expensive a luxury as a grouse moor or a deer forest ) , and partly also because the art is now pursued with greatly improved appliances . We live in times in which , as I observed in the first page of the ...
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... river , the Nottingham spinners are both expert and successful as regards the actual results of their system - and these the most important results , viz . , making good baskets . . . I might add as a third argument against the attempt ...
... river , the Nottingham spinners are both expert and successful as regards the actual results of their system - and these the most important results , viz . , making good baskets . . . I might add as a third argument against the attempt ...
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... river . The fishing - knife in the engraving contains , besides the ' disgorger - blade , ' a minnow - needle and a baiting - needle in a box , a really powerful blade suited for crimping , lunching , or other general purposes , a sharp ...
... river . The fishing - knife in the engraving contains , besides the ' disgorger - blade , ' a minnow - needle and a baiting - needle in a box , a really powerful blade suited for crimping , lunching , or other general purposes , a sharp ...
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... purpose ; all of them , in different ways , have the advantage of containing tackle or luncheon compartments separate from the fish - carrying portion . I once knew a very expensive salmon river in Ireland 34 PIKE AND OTHER COARSE FISH .
... purpose ; all of them , in different ways , have the advantage of containing tackle or luncheon compartments separate from the fish - carrying portion . I once knew a very expensive salmon river in Ireland 34 PIKE AND OTHER COARSE FISH .
Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 94 - Beyond it, blooms the garden that I love. News from the humming city comes to it In sound of funeral or of marriage bells; And, sitting muffled in dark leaves, you hear The windy clanging of the minster clock; Although between it and the garden lies A league of grass, wash'd by a slow broad stream, That, stirr'd with languid pulses of the oar, Waves all its lazy lilies, and creeps on, Barge-laden, to three arches of a bridge Crown'd with the minster-towers.
Página 1 - A visitor of the rounds of God's sweet skill. Man's life is warm, glad, sad, 'twixt loves and graves, Boundless in hope, honoured with pangs austere, Heaven-gazing; and his angel-wings he craves: — The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves, Quickened with touches of transporting fear.
Página 334 - O glide, fair stream! for ever so, Thy quiet soul on all bestowing, Till all our minds for ever flow As thy deep waters now are flowing.
Página 197 - But of this no more, but that it is observed, that the old or very great Pikes have in them more of state than goodness; the smaller or middle-sized Pikes, being by the most and choicest palates observed to be the best meat; and contrary, the Eel is observed to be the better for age and bigness.
Página 255 - ... spines, which on these occasions are projected. I have witnessed a battle of this sort which lasted several minutes before either would give way ; and when one does submit, imagination can hardly conceive the vindictive fury of the conqueror ; who, in the most persevering and unrelenting way, chases his rival from one part of the tub to another, until fairly exhausted with fatigue.
Página 198 - Rusticum,' exactly reverses the dictum : Lo ! the rich pike, to entertain your guest, Smokes on the board, and decks a royal feast. . . . An assertion which is perfectly in consonance with the facts of the case as it pointedly figures in the Cartes de diner of most of the grand and royal banquets of former times— as, for instance, the feast at the enthronisation of George Nevil, Archbishop of York, in 1466 ; the feast given to Richard II. by the celebrated William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester...