An Old Man's HolidaysSampson Low, Marston and Company, 1901 - 140 sider |
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... insects floating above them , and so devote them- selves more and more to the insect larvæ which they find below , and hence the scarcity of natural flies on the surface ? This little theory will at all events serve to explain the fact ...
... insects floating above them , and so devote them- selves more and more to the insect larvæ which they find below , and hence the scarcity of natural flies on the surface ? This little theory will at all events serve to explain the fact ...
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... insects in the air . Never be- fore have I seen one of these little night bats out in the sun in this way . After many pleasant bright days spent on the island , I crossed the Solent , and found myself on the Itchen . The weather had ...
... insects in the air . Never be- fore have I seen one of these little night bats out in the sun in this way . After many pleasant bright days spent on the island , I crossed the Solent , and found myself on the Itchen . The weather had ...
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... insect and rise of trout , as they had experienced for some years . But I was not there to see it . Friday , June 24. - Arrived at my old quarters on the Itchen , two o'clock . A very disappointing day . I came here to fish , and I find ...
... insect and rise of trout , as they had experienced for some years . But I was not there to see it . Friday , June 24. - Arrived at my old quarters on the Itchen , two o'clock . A very disappointing day . I came here to fish , and I find ...
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... Swallows , skimming in pursuit of an imper- ceptible insect , left nothing to tempt a fish to rise . It is simply delightful sitting here , watching B and waiting . If the swallows would go away for ANGLING THAT " PREACHETH PATIENCE " 17.
... Swallows , skimming in pursuit of an imper- ceptible insect , left nothing to tempt a fish to rise . It is simply delightful sitting here , watching B and waiting . If the swallows would go away for ANGLING THAT " PREACHETH PATIENCE " 17.
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... insect on the troubled waters ; as well may I have cast it on the turnpike road . I came at length to the barbed wire , and there was my friend as lively as ever , so I sent my barbed betrayer to look after that Dun in that trout's ...
... insect on the troubled waters ; as well may I have cast it on the turnpike road . I came at length to the barbed wire , and there was my friend as lively as ever , so I sent my barbed betrayer to look after that Dun in that trout's ...
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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...