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 vii
... " The former treatise is largely a working manual for the open season and the stream ; this is more a book for Winter evenings and the fireside , and for the workshop . The sportsman's transcendent implements are his rod and his gun vii.
... " The former treatise is largely a working manual for the open season and the stream ; this is more a book for Winter evenings and the fireside , and for the workshop . The sportsman's transcendent implements are his rod and his gun vii.
Side ix
... to those who have a more familiar acquaintance with the " tight line . " With appreciation we acknowledge our indebted- ness to Mr. Edwin T. Whiffen of New Rochelle , N. Y. , and to the Forest and Stream magazine PREFACE ix.
... to those who have a more familiar acquaintance with the " tight line . " With appreciation we acknowledge our indebted- ness to Mr. Edwin T. Whiffen of New Rochelle , N. Y. , and to the Forest and Stream magazine PREFACE ix.
Side x
... Stream magazine , for the use of Mr. Whiffen's delightful bit of natural his- tory comprised in Chapter XI . That " good luck " in abundant measure may at- tend the reader , is the greeting of A BROTHER ANGLER Yonkers , N. Y. , Winter ...
... Stream magazine , for the use of Mr. Whiffen's delightful bit of natural his- tory comprised in Chapter XI . That " good luck " in abundant measure may at- tend the reader , is the greeting of A BROTHER ANGLER Yonkers , N. Y. , Winter ...
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... stream Descends the billowy foam ; now is the time To tempt the trout . The well - dissembled fly , The rod fine ... streams and roused the finny race , Then , issuing cheerful , to thy sport repair . Chief should the western breezes ...
... stream Descends the billowy foam ; now is the time To tempt the trout . The well - dissembled fly , The rod fine ... streams and roused the finny race , Then , issuing cheerful , to thy sport repair . Chief should the western breezes ...
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... streams , milk - maids ' songs , and moral reflections , " which down through the years has continued to " prove irresistible . " Perhaps the reader may now be curious to know something of what the good Dame Berners had to say of ...
... streams , milk - maids ' songs , and moral reflections , " which down through the years has continued to " prove irresistible . " Perhaps the reader may now be curious to know something of what the good Dame Berners had to say of ...
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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.