An Old Man's HolidaysSampson Low, Marston and Company, 1901 - 140 sider |
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... brace of grayling . These grayling , which , with their bluish - purply sheen , can be seen in pairs on the gravel beds , the one dark and the other fair , are always only too ready to make a dash at a floating fly . It is a nuisance to ...
... brace of grayling . These grayling , which , with their bluish - purply sheen , can be seen in pairs on the gravel beds , the one dark and the other fair , are always only too ready to make a dash at a floating fly . It is a nuisance to ...
Side 15
... brace of fine grayling to bank and lost one . I am satisfied . Our water is too full of grayling , so I make no scruple now about bagging them , for they are really in fine condition , and they want thinning . The Major and the ...
... brace of fine grayling to bank and lost one . I am satisfied . Our water is too full of grayling , so I make no scruple now about bagging them , for they are really in fine condition , and they want thinning . The Major and the ...
Side 16
... brace - equally divided between us - and so we finished the week . Sunday . - A dies non as to fishing , alternated between heavy rain and bright sunshine , thunder and lightning . Monday morning . - Gloomy and dull , north- easterly ...
... brace - equally divided between us - and so we finished the week . Sunday . - A dies non as to fishing , alternated between heavy rain and bright sunshine , thunder and lightning . Monday morning . - Gloomy and dull , north- easterly ...
Side 25
... brace of small trout ; then we had to trudge back over the hills and through woods . It is a lovely , secluded spot , and I hope to pay it another visit . In the morning we had driven over to Builth , about seven miles , through very ...
... brace of small trout ; then we had to trudge back over the hills and through woods . It is a lovely , secluded spot , and I hope to pay it another visit . In the morning we had driven over to Builth , about seven miles , through very ...
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... brace of trout , and hooked and lost several more . Ah ! the tumbles and scratches and escapes I had up and down those terrible banks ! Sometimes getting along a sort of under- cliff for one hundred yards , and then coming suddenly on a ...
... brace of trout , and hooked and lost several more . Ah ! the tumbles and scratches and escapes I had up and down those terrible banks ! Sometimes getting along a sort of under- cliff for one hundred yards , and then coming suddenly on a ...
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Alpine Bridge AMATEUR ANGLER angling bank beautiful beck big trout birds brace of trout called cast catch cats caught CHAPTER charming chub climb Cornish Cornwall Crabtree Green cried delightful Dovedale drive Edition ELAN River Elan Valley feet FISHERMAN'S LUCK flies floating fly FLY FISHING gander geese go a-fishing goose grass grayling Gurnard's Head Helston hill holidays hook hope Hotel inches insect interesting Itchen ITHON Jersey car July Kynance Cove ladies and gen'leman lake Land's Land's End Llandrindod Loe Pool London look lovely Marazion meadows miles morning nest never nice Noss Mayo ouananiche Penzance Phantom pike Piscator Major pleasant pool Professor rain Red Phantom river RIVER DOVE rocks round salmon Scalby scenery seen Shaky Bridge side spot stream told tree village weather weeds wind woods young
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Side 131 - This day dame Nature seem'd in love : The lusty sap began to move; Fresh juice did stir th' embracing vines, And birds had drawn their valentines. The jealous Trout, that low did lie, Rose at a well-dissembled fly : There stood my friend with patient skill, Attending of his trembling quill.
Side 14 - That's the wise thrush; he sings each song twice over, Lest you should think he never could recapture The first fine careless rapture! And though the fields look rough with hoary dew, All will be gay when noontide wakes anew The buttercups, the little children's dower — Far brighter than this gaudy melon-flower!
Side 55 - Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood : To the which place a poor ^sequester'd stag, That from the hunter's aim had ta'en a hurt...
Side 66 - Man's life is like a winter's day, Some only breakfast, and away ; Others to dinner stay, and are full fed : The oldest man but sups, and goes to bed. Large is his debt who lingers out the day, Who goes the soonest has the least to pay.
Side 55 - To-day, my lord of Amiens and myself Did steal behind him, as he lay along Under an oak, whose antique root peeps out Upon the brook that brawls along this wood...
Side 66 - Our life is but a Winter's day, Some only breakfast and away ; Others to dinner stay and are full fed, The oldest man but sups and goes to bed ; Large is his debt, who lingers out the day, Who goes the soonest has the least to pay.
Side 128 - When that kri-karee went floating down the stream, the ouananiche was surprised. It was the I4th of September, and he had supposed the grasshopper season was over. The unexpected temptation was too strong for him. He rose with a rush, and in an instant I was fast to the best land-locked salmon of the year. . . . My rod weighed only 4j ozs.; the fish weighed between 6 Ibs. and 7 Ibs.; the water was furious and headstrong ; I had only thirty yards of line, and no landing-net. "' Hold.! Ferdinand; I...
Side 127 - all ashore ' bell was not rung early enough. I just got off with not half-a-second to spare." After struggling to act deliberately, being himself of a precipitate nature, he set about selecting his flies, and having at length selected two that he thought fairly good, he laid them down on the grass to look through his book for something better, but finding nothing, he turned to pick up those he had laid down, only to find they had mysteriously vanished. Then he had a struggle with naughty words,...
Side 131 - ... never has been untenanted by a worthy and expert brother of the angle since the time of Wotton. And there it was, ' with peace and patience cohabiting in his heart,' as Walton tells us, that Sir Henry, when beyond seventy years of age, ' made this description of a part of the present pleasure that possessed him, as he sat quietly, on a summer's evening, on a bank afishing. It is a description of the Spring ; which, because it glided as softly and sweetly from his pen as that river does at this...
Side 128 - At last he made his way to the very edge of the water and poised himself on a stone, with his legs well tucked in for a long leap and a bold flight to the other side of the river. It was my final opportunity. I made a desperate grab at it and caught the grasshopper. My premonition proved to be correct. When that Kri-karee, invisibly attached to my...