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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... floats , no shot , and a moderate - sized red worm for bait . Off with our shoes and stockings , tuck up our trousers , then cautiously and quietly pushing through the under- wood , we enter the water and wade through the flags , which ...
... floats , no shot , and a moderate - sized red worm for bait . Off with our shoes and stockings , tuck up our trousers , then cautiously and quietly pushing through the under- wood , we enter the water and wade through the flags , which ...
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... float has disappeared ; strike ! and up comes the line - no fish . In with it again ! We must be more watchful ; but ... floats . As it gets calmer , one moves a little ; then , after a while , a little more , and then walks off quietly ...
... float has disappeared ; strike ! and up comes the line - no fish . In with it again ! We must be more watchful ; but ... floats . As it gets calmer , one moves a little ; then , after a while , a little more , and then walks off quietly ...
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... float . I shout to my friend for help , but see him with a rod in each hand , both bending and springing like mad ; the water in front of him white with the struggles of his prey - as white as his face , and as my own probably is , with ...
... float . I shout to my friend for help , but see him with a rod in each hand , both bending and springing like mad ; the water in front of him white with the struggles of his prey - as white as his face , and as my own probably is , with ...
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... floats during its decay in the water . This is , however , but a supposition . * The other meres do not " break " to such an extent ; but then they are not so full of the Anacharis , and the water is probably purer . While the water is ...
... floats during its decay in the water . This is , however , but a supposition . * The other meres do not " break " to such an extent ; but then they are not so full of the Anacharis , and the water is probably purer . While the water is ...
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... floating lump of black , wet weed is a grebe's nest . Lift the weeds from the top and you will find four or five eggs - one , perhaps , the last laid , tolerably white , the others stained to dif- ferent degrees of dirtiness . The ...
... floating lump of black , wet weed is a grebe's nest . Lift the weeds from the top and you will find four or five eggs - one , perhaps , the last laid , tolerably white , the others stained to dif- ferent degrees of dirtiness . The ...
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