Recreations of a Sportsman on the Pacific CoastG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1910 - 399 Seiten |
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... tried every 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 ...
... tried every 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 ...
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... large tuna , but not at such a continuous speed as this . I had slowed down to within twenty feet of them , just behind , and believing that there was a chance of their boat filling , tried to maintain ΙΟ Recreations of a Sportsman.
... large tuna , but not at such a continuous speed as this . I had slowed down to within twenty feet of them , just behind , and believing that there was a chance of their boat filling , tried to maintain ΙΟ Recreations of a Sportsman.
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Charles Frederick Holder. a chance of their boat filling , tried to maintain this position , my left hand on the engine lever , my right on the wheel , with Joaquin in the bow to keep an outlook . And here I saw , or tried to see ...
Charles Frederick Holder. a chance of their boat filling , tried to maintain this position , my left hand on the engine lever , my right on the wheel , with Joaquin in the bow to keep an outlook . And here I saw , or tried to see ...
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... tried swordfish or tuna . The fish never rests ; he fights until he is dead , until the end . When you rest , he rests twice as fast , and to rest is to lose . Pinchot , apparently , never let up on his reel- ing and pumping , but ...
... tried swordfish or tuna . The fish never rests ; he fights until he is dead , until the end . When you rest , he rests twice as fast , and to rest is to lose . Pinchot , apparently , never let up on his reel- ing and pumping , but ...
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... trying to back her away . it was too late ; a big sea tossed me over , and they seemed to suddenly come at me out of the night . I must have sent the launch ahead , instead of astern . Perhaps I had her backing and going ahead at the ...
... trying to back her away . it was too late ; a big sea tossed me over , and they seemed to suddenly come at me out of the night . I must have sent the launch ahead , instead of astern . Perhaps I had her backing and going ahead at the ...
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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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Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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!
Seite 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.