Recreations of a Sportsman on the Pacific CoastG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1910 - 399 sider |
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... known expedi- ent , and bait , to attract the attention of this swordfish who complacently swam down the coast , now turning out , or in , as we caught its eye , but rarely changing far from the even tenor of its way . Once , as I stood ...
... known expedi- ent , and bait , to attract the attention of this swordfish who complacently swam down the coast , now turning out , or in , as we caught its eye , but rarely changing far from the even tenor of its way . Once , as I stood ...
Side 25
... known as Mount Mount Mazama . This mountain was once fourteen or fifteen thousand feet high ; but something happened , the top was blown off , doubtless after the fashion of Pelée , and for twenty or thirty miles about , it rained lava ...
... known as Mount Mount Mazama . This mountain was once fourteen or fifteen thousand feet high ; but something happened , the top was blown off , doubtless after the fashion of Pelée , and for twenty or thirty miles about , it rained lava ...
Side 26
... known as Wizard Island . How long ago this occurred is not known . There is no " oldest inhabitant " to consult who has any tradition , as the natives avoided the deep abyss . It was discovered only in recent years by white men , filled ...
... known as Wizard Island . How long ago this occurred is not known . There is no " oldest inhabitant " to consult who has any tradition , as the natives avoided the deep abyss . It was discovered only in recent years by white men , filled ...
Side 58
... known he was headed that way even if he had not seen the needle of his com- pass ; he noted the lichens on the north and east sides of the trees where the snow had fallen , and dashed on . The descent was so steep that he coasted on his ...
... known he was headed that way even if he had not seen the needle of his com- pass ; he noted the lichens on the north and east sides of the trees where the snow had fallen , and dashed on . The descent was so steep that he coasted on his ...
Side 93
... known about the peculiar tribe of Molas except that they live on the high seas offshore . The young are very unlike the adults in appearance , and , at least at Avalon , are never seen , a fish smaller than ten pounds having never been ...
... known about the peculiar tribe of Molas except that they live on the high seas offshore . The young are very unlike the adults in appearance , and , at least at Avalon , are never seen , a fish smaller than ten pounds having never been ...
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angler angling Avalon bait beautiful blue boat boatman cactus cactus forest California cañon cast catch caught chariot chariot races Clancy coast color crater Crater Lake dashed deep delight doubtless dropped Feather Feather River fifty feet fight fins flying fish friars game fish giant Gifford Pinchot green head hooked horse hundred feet Indians island José Klamath Klamath Falls lake land launch leap light little river look Mazama Mexican Joe miles mission mountains night orcas Pinchot play pounds race rainbow rainbow trout range reached region Rio Yaqui rising rush salmon San Clemente seemed seen shark shore side Sierra Nevada skiff slopes slowly snow splendid sport stopped story strange strike surface swordfish thousand tints to-day took towed trail trees trout stream Tuna Tuna Club twenty valley vineyard whale Williamson River Wimawita wind yellow yellowtail
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Side 139 - Indeed, my good scholar, we may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, " Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did :" and so, if I might be judge, " God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation, than angling.
Side 22 - ... which broke their waves, and turned them into foam : and sometimes I beguiled time by viewing the harmless lambs, some leaping securely in the cool shade, whilst others sported themselves in the cheerful sun ; and saw others craving comfort from the swollen udders of their bleating dams. As I...
Side 22 - I was last this way a-fishing ; and the birds in the adjoining grove seemed to have a friendly 149 contention with an echo, whose dead voice seemed to live in a hollow tree, near to the brow of that primrose hill. There I sat, viewing the silver streams glide silently towards their centre, the tempestuous sea ; yet sometimes...
Side 23 - Twas a handsome milk-maid that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things that will never be, as too many men too often do; but she cast away all care and sung like a nightingale. Her voice was good, and the ditty fitted for it: it was that smooth song which was made by Kit Marlow now at least fifty years ago. And the milk-maid's mother sung an answer to it which was made by Sir Walter Raleigh in his younger days.
Side 184 - I have compylyd it in a greter uolume, of dyuerse bokys concernynge to gentyll and noble men, to the entent that the forsayd ydle persones whyche sholde haue but lytyll mesure in the sayd...
Side 184 - And for by cause that this present treatyse sholde not come to the hondys of eche ydle persone whyche wolde desire it, yf it were...
Side 22 - ... there I sat viewing the silver streams glide silently towards their centre, the tempestuous sea ; yet sometimes opposed by rugged roots, and pebble stones, which broke their waves, and turned them into foam ; and sometimes I beguiled time by viewing the harmless lambs, some leaping securely in the cool shade, whilst others sported themselves in the cheerful sun ; and saw others craving comfort from the swollen udders of their bleating dams.
Side 36 - I seek the great lake in the top of the mountain to bathe in its limpid waters," he answered. "There would I also go and share your perils." "'tis well," answered Wimawita, "and I will reward your faith in me." Tsileu, inwardly raging, cast a look of hate upon them and sped northward through the land of the Klamaths. The next day Wimawita and Tculucul journeyed up the river. They came to a large lake and after some distance this gradually narrowed to a small but rapid stream. After a course of some...
Side 44 - And he quench'd his thirst with two quarts of the first, To a pint of the latter, daily; Singing, "Oh, that a Dutchman's Draught could be As deep as the rolling Zuyder-Zee!
Side 23 - I left this place, and entered into the next field, a second pleasure entertained me' 'twas a handsome milkmaid that had not yet attained so much age and wisdom as to load her mind with any fears of many things that will never be, as too many men too often do; but she cast away all care, and sung like a nightingale.