The Idyl of the Split-bamboo: A Carefully Detailed Description of the Rod's Building, Prefaced by a Dissertation on the Joys of Angling, There Being Appended Some Information on the Home Cultivation of Silkworm-gut and Suggestions on Landing-nets and Other Equipment, and for the Angler's CampStewart & Kidd Company, 1920 - 276 sider |
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Side 43
... leaves fall in February or March , and the young new ones appear in April . The young culms are rather late , usually be- ginning to appear in July sometime after the rains begin . As compared with the Calcutta bamboo , the rind or ...
... leaves fall in February or March , and the young new ones appear in April . The young culms are rather late , usually be- ginning to appear in July sometime after the rains begin . As compared with the Calcutta bamboo , the rind or ...
Side 44
... leaves have dropped or been cut away , are rarely noticeable in the butts delivered by the bamboo dealer , whereas in the Calcutta sticks they always are found and in an aggravated form due to the leaf being set deeper into the stalk ...
... leaves have dropped or been cut away , are rarely noticeable in the butts delivered by the bamboo dealer , whereas in the Calcutta sticks they always are found and in an aggravated form due to the leaf being set deeper into the stalk ...
Side 56
... leaves were attached , which are on opposite sides at al- ternate nodes . The same operation repeated will divide your halves evenly into quarters , when you now set about removing the outside ridges and the parts of the partitions from ...
... leaves were attached , which are on opposite sides at al- ternate nodes . The same operation repeated will divide your halves evenly into quarters , when you now set about removing the outside ridges and the parts of the partitions from ...
Side 71
... leaves the mold . Wooden molds are further deficient in accuracy , as compared with steel molds , because the edges and angles of a wooden groove are less sharply defined than is possible with steel . We will give sufficient details ...
... leaves the mold . Wooden molds are further deficient in accuracy , as compared with steel molds , because the edges and angles of a wooden groove are less sharply defined than is possible with steel . We will give sufficient details ...
Side 96
... leaves that amount less than 40.79 , or 39.665 inches , for the wood length of the second - joint . The way that it works ' out is shown in our next illustration . Going back now to our previous diagram , we measure 39.54 inches from A ...
... leaves that amount less than 40.79 , or 39.665 inches , for the wood length of the second - joint . The way that it works ' out is shown in our next illustration . Going back now to our previous diagram , we measure 39.54 inches from A ...
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Side 13 - And He said unto them, Cast the net on the right side of the ship, and ye shall find. They cast therefore, and now they were not able to draw it for the multitude of fishes. Therefore that disciple whom Jesus loved saith unto Peter, It is the Lord.
Side 3 - When with his lively ray the potent Sun Has pierced the streams, and roused the finny race, Then, issuing cheerful, to thy sport repair; Chief should the western breezes curling play, And light o'er ether bear the shadowy clouds. High to their fount, this day, amid the hills, And woodlands warbling round, trace up the brooks; The next, pursue their rocky-channel'd maze, Down to the river, in whose ample wave Their little naiads love to sport at large.
Side 13 - As soon then as they were come to land, they saw a fire of coals there, and fish laid thereon, and bread.
Side 12 - Indeed, my friend, you will find Angling to be like the virtue of Humility, which has a calmness of spirit, and a world of other blessings attending upon it. Sir, this was the saying of that learned man. And I do easily believe, that peace, and patience, and a calm content, did cohabit in the cheerful heart of Sir Henry Wotton, because I know that when he was beyond seventy years of age, he made this...
Side 12 - ... and that it begat habits of peace and patience in those that professed and practised it.
Side 12 - I do easily believe that peace, and patience, and a calm content, did cohabit in the cheerful heart of Sir Henry Wotton, because I know that when he was beyond seventy years of age, he made this description of a part of the present pleasure that possessed him, as he sat quietly in a Summer's evening on a bank a-fishing.
Side 11 - My next and last example shall be that undervaluer of money, the late Provost of Eton College, Sir Henry Wotton ; a man with whom I have often fished and conversed, a man whose foreign employments in the service of this nation, and whose experience, learning, wit, and cheerfulness made his company to be esteemed one of the delights of mankind. This man, whose very approbation of Angling were sufficient...
Side 3 - While yet the dark-brown water aids the guile, To tempt the trout. The well-dissembled fly, The rod fine-tapering with elastic spring, Snatch'd from the hoary steed the floating line, And all thy slender watery stores prepare.
Side 13 - Joan takes her neat-rubbed pail, and now She trips to milk the sand-red cow ; Where for some sturdy foot-ball swain Joan strokes a...
Side 12 - With the swift pilgrim's daubed nest. The groves already did rejoice In Philomel's triumphing voice. The showers were short, the weather mild, The morning fresh, the evening smiled.