A Book on Angling: Being a Complete Treatise on the Art of Angling in Every BranchLongmans, Green & Company, 1867 - 429 páginas |
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... history of angling . Our business lies with the present , and with a very brief notice we shall dismiss the past . One of the first treatises in the English language on angling is that of Dame Juliana Berners , or Barnes , in the Book ...
... history of angling . Our business lies with the present , and with a very brief notice we shall dismiss the past . One of the first treatises in the English language on angling is that of Dame Juliana Berners , or Barnes , in the Book ...
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... historical chub , that chub Dagon in fact , with the white spot on his tail , that was the first fish that introduced me to old Isaac ? I trow it was , and well do I remember , although so many years have passed away , how from that ...
... historical chub , that chub Dagon in fact , with the white spot on his tail , that was the first fish that introduced me to old Isaac ? I trow it was , and well do I remember , although so many years have passed away , how from that ...
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... history of his ancestors , & c . , then I commend him to that capital book , ' The Book of the Pike . ' The pike , under favourable cir- cumstances , grows to almost any size a freshwater fish could be supposed to attain , even to ...
... history of his ancestors , & c . , then I commend him to that capital book , ' The Book of the Pike . ' The pike , under favourable cir- cumstances , grows to almost any size a freshwater fish could be supposed to attain , even to ...
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... History , ' cites an instance in which pike had increased to nearly twenty pounds weight ( from two or three ) in eighteen months , or at the rate of almost ten or eleven pounds a year . The pike is from his habits a solitary fish ...
... History , ' cites an instance in which pike had increased to nearly twenty pounds weight ( from two or three ) in eighteen months , or at the rate of almost ten or eleven pounds a year . The pike is from his habits a solitary fish ...
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... history , and therefore I recur at once to the legitimate purpose of my work , merely throwing out a hint which may often find amusement for the speculative naturalist , who may be an angler also . But if trout are various in their ...
... history , and therefore I recur at once to the legitimate purpose of my work , merely throwing out a hint which may often find amusement for the speculative naturalist , who may be an angler also . But if trout are various in their ...
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