Recreations of a Sportsman on the Pacific CoastG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1910 - 399 էջ |
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... Playing a Yellowtail . ( 2 ) Pinchot and the Tuna Hound . ( 3 ) Chinettis . ( 4 ) Pinchot on the Fifth Hour . ( 5 ) The Landing . ( 6 ) The Party . 174 194 • 196 200 210 216 AROUND PELICAN BAY ( 1 ) Mr. Beebe Casting . Illustrations vii.
... Playing a Yellowtail . ( 2 ) Pinchot and the Tuna Hound . ( 3 ) Chinettis . ( 4 ) Pinchot on the Fifth Hour . ( 5 ) The Landing . ( 6 ) The Party . 174 194 • 196 200 210 216 AROUND PELICAN BAY ( 1 ) Mr. Beebe Casting . Illustrations vii.
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... playing the fish , and I was the cool and damp spectator . In the excitement he forgot all about the danger , while it was my business to know it , and if possible to avert it . The sea was rising and the swordfish was con- stantly ...
... playing the fish , and I was the cool and damp spectator . In the excitement he forgot all about the danger , while it was my business to know it , and if possible to avert it . The sea was rising and the swordfish was con- stantly ...
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... played a big fish better than did Pinchot that night , as the channel is a treacherous one , and the con- ditions not all that one would wish . Sudden fogs , high winds , heavy seas , extraordinary cur- rents , are some of the ...
... played a big fish better than did Pinchot that night , as the channel is a treacherous one , and the con- ditions not all that one would wish . Sudden fogs , high winds , heavy seas , extraordinary cur- rents , are some of the ...
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... played . So Pinchot was literally driving the steed by a single rein , which makes the catch very remarkable . No ... playing them in the open sea than with any other game fish , may be fairly conceded . CHAPTER II IT ANGLING IN A CRATER ...
... played . So Pinchot was literally driving the steed by a single rein , which makes the catch very remarkable . No ... playing them in the open sea than with any other game fish , may be fairly conceded . CHAPTER II IT ANGLING IN A CRATER ...
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... plays with rod and line until at last it is netted , and , fighting still , is lifted into the boat . Some day when Crater National Park is the mecca of tourists , angling in this cup of Mazama may become a popular pastime , but not for ...
... plays with rod and line until at last it is netted , and , fighting still , is lifted into the boat . Some day when Crater National Park is the mecca of tourists , angling in this cup of Mazama may become a popular pastime , but not for ...
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Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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.
Էջ 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...
Էջ 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!
Էջ 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.