The Angler's Note-book and Naturalist's Record: A Repertory of Fact, Inquiry and Discussion on Field-sports and Subjects of Natural HistoryW. Satchell, 1880 - 192 páginas |
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... hook , and also lose , a salmon in the Derwent . But he was fortunate to make up for this by catching with spinning bait a salmon of 81⁄2 lb. , said to be the largest yet taken in Tasmania , and a grilse of 4 lb. with a fly of bright ...
... hook , and also lose , a salmon in the Derwent . But he was fortunate to make up for this by catching with spinning bait a salmon of 81⁄2 lb. , said to be the largest yet taken in Tasmania , and a grilse of 4 lb. with a fly of bright ...
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... hook him fast ! Not gladder Shobden's wealthy peer Eyes his fat oxen or his deer ; Nor peeress , when her alms she gives , Nor those her charity relieves ; Nor Gripus , when he views his store , And counts and counts it o'er and o'er ...
... hook him fast ! Not gladder Shobden's wealthy peer Eyes his fat oxen or his deer ; Nor peeress , when her alms she gives , Nor those her charity relieves ; Nor Gripus , when he views his store , And counts and counts it o'er and o'er ...
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... hook in his leathern lip . After one grand rush he soon gave up struggling and came to the top again . Having no landing - net , and the banks being covered with bushes , we were play- ing him gingerly whilst thinking how to land him ...
... hook in his leathern lip . After one grand rush he soon gave up struggling and came to the top again . Having no landing - net , and the banks being covered with bushes , we were play- ing him gingerly whilst thinking how to land him ...
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... hook and cast my line up stream ; the worm scarcely touched the So pre- water when I felt a tug and succeeded in draw- ing a large trout towards me . Having basketed this I threw again with the same result , and now astonishment awaited ...
... hook and cast my line up stream ; the worm scarcely touched the So pre- water when I felt a tug and succeeded in draw- ing a large trout towards me . Having basketed this I threw again with the same result , and now astonishment awaited ...
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... hook or take a fish . The strength of the current enabled many a fish to break away , but at the end of half - an - hour my basket held eight fish , and when these were tabled at the hotel they proved to be three trout , three grayling ...
... hook or take a fish . The strength of the current enabled many a fish to break away , but at the end of half - an - hour my basket held eight fish , and when these were tabled at the hotel they proved to be three trout , three grayling ...
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Página 66 - FLOWER in the crannied wall, I pluck you out of the crannies, I hold you here, root and all, in my hand, Little flower — but if I could understand What you are, root and all, and all in all, I should know what God and man is.
Página 132 - Et jam summa procul villarum culmina fumant, Majoresque cadunt altis de montibus umbrae.
Página 158 - A rod twelve feet long and a ring of wire, A winder and barrel, will help thy desire In killing a Pike : but the forked stick, With a slit and a bladder, — and that other fine trick, Which our artists call snap, with a goose or a duck, — Will kill two for one, if you have any luck ; The gentry of Shropshire do merrily smile, To see a goose and a belt the fish to beguile. When a Pike suns himself, and a-frogging doth go, The two-inched hook is better, I know, Than the ord'nary snaring. But still...
Página 89 - Because hawking and hunting are very laborious, much riding and many dangers accompany them ; but this is still and quiet : and if so be the angler catch no Fish, yet he hath a wholesome walk to the Brook side, pleasant shade by the sweet silver streams ; he hath good air.
Página 132 - Once I was a monarch's daughter, And sat on a lady's knee ; But am now a nightly rover, Banish'd to the ivy tree, " Crying, hoo, hoo, hoo, hoo, boo, hoo, Hoo, hoo, hoo, my feet are cold ! Pity me, for here you see me, Persecuted, poor, and old.
Página 142 - ... many days after birth : for the young ones, supposed to break through the belly of the dam, will, upon any fright, for protection run into it ; for then the old one receives them in at her mouth, which way, the fright being past, they will return again ;9 which is a peculiar way of refuge...
Página 89 - But he that shall consider the variety of baits for all seasons, and pretty devices which our anglers have invented, peculiar lines, false flies, several sleights...
Página 47 - It is natural to imagine that, when a slight wound only is inflicted, the game will make its escape. Far otherwise; the Wourali poison...
Página 91 - O'er ten square leagues his far diverging heads ; Or in one trunk entwists his tangled form, Looks o'er the clouds, and hisses in the storm: Steeped in fell poison, as his sharp teeth part, A thousand tongues in quick vibration dart ; Snatch the proud eagle towering o'er the heath, Or pounce the lion as he stalks beneath ; Or strew, as marshall'd hosts contend in vain With human skeletons the whiten'd plain.
Página 65 - Whoever will follow these pages, crayfish in hand, and will try to verify for himself the statements which they contain, will find himself brought face to face with all the great zoological questions which excite so lively an interest at the present day.