Mountain, Meadow, & Mere: A Series of Outdoor Sketches of Sport, Scenery, Adventures, and Natural History ...Henry S. King & Company, 1873 - 226 páginas |
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... carried home ! - never a fish under a pound and a half , many up to four pounds , but few beyond that weight . The pool , I sup- pose , had never been fished except by us for the last thirty years , and the very abundance of the fish ...
... carried home ! - never a fish under a pound and a half , many up to four pounds , but few beyond that weight . The pool , I sup- pose , had never been fished except by us for the last thirty years , and the very abundance of the fish ...
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... carried the whole of them home . We were a bit ashamed of that exploit , though . It was all very well once in a way , but too unsportsmanlike to be repeated often . It be- came a question what to do with the fish after we had caught ...
... carried the whole of them home . We were a bit ashamed of that exploit , though . It was all very well once in a way , but too unsportsmanlike to be repeated often . It be- came a question what to do with the fish after we had caught ...
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... carried on by those who have obtained leave to have a day's " sport . " It is a sickening thing to see , as I once saw , baskets full of young jack barely 8 inches long , all head , and useless for food , massacred - there is no other ...
... carried on by those who have obtained leave to have a day's " sport . " It is a sickening thing to see , as I once saw , baskets full of young jack barely 8 inches long , all head , and useless for food , massacred - there is no other ...
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... carried over and hurt . Rather than let a wounded bird escape to pine away in agony , I determined to retrieve it myself . I had on a pair of wading boots reaching up to the thigh ; and as the water was only about nine inches deep on ...
... carried over and hurt . Rather than let a wounded bird escape to pine away in agony , I determined to retrieve it myself . I had on a pair of wading boots reaching up to the thigh ; and as the water was only about nine inches deep on ...
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... carried by the force of the stream into deep water , and , not being able to swim , he had a near squeak for it . Here is the place where we are to shoot . I wonder where the boat is ! Can you see it ? " " No ; your man has either ...
... carried by the force of the stream into deep water , and , not being able to swim , he had a near squeak for it . Here is the place where we are to shoot . I wonder where the boat is ! Can you see it ? " " No ; your man has either ...
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