The Practical Fisherman: Dealing with the Natural History, the Legendary Lore, the Capture of British Freshwater Fish, and Tackle and Tackle Making"The Bazaar" Office, 1881 - 481 sider |
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Side 65 - him, and season your claret well with salt, cloves, and mace, and the rinds of oranges and lemons ; that done, cover your pot and set it on a quick fire, till it be sufficiently boiled ; then take out the carp, and lay it with the broth in the dish, and pour upon it a
Side 9 - A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.
Side 64 - open him, into a small pot or kettle ; then take sweet marjoram, thyme, and parsley, of each half a handful, a sprig of rosemary, and another of savory, bind them into two or three bundles, and put them to your carp, with four or five whole onions, twenty pickled
Side 206 - may fish with a worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm.
Side 253 - revolving moon one colour reigns, Which, in the next, the fickle trout disdains. Oft have I seen the skilful angler try The various colours of the treacherous fly. When he with fruitless pain hath skimmed the brook. And the coy fish
Side 47 - in reference to the amount of profit that is the reward of his skill. By incessant use in this way, the miller's thumb acquires a form which is said to resemble exactly the shape of the head of the fish so constantly found in the mill-stream, and called the Miller's Thumb.