The American Angler, Volum 25

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William Charles Harris
Angler's Publishing Company, 1895
 

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Pàgina 210 - Cigarettes are made from the brightest, most delicately flavored and highest cost Gold Leaf grown in Virginia. This is the Old and Original Brand of Straight Cut Cigarettes, and was brought out by us in the year 1875. 0eware of Imitations, and observe that the firm name as below is on every package.
Pàgina 300 - CIGARETTE SMOKERS who are willing to pay a little more than the price charged for the ordinary trade Cigarettes, will find THIS BRAND superior to all others.
Pàgina 75 - ANGLER'S SONG. As inward love breeds outward talk, The hound some praise, and some the hawk ; Some, better pleased with private sport, Use tennis ; some a mistress court : But these delights I neither wish Nor envy, while I freely fish. Who hunts, doth oft in danger ride ; Who hawks, lures oft both far and wide ; Who uses games, shall often prove A loser ; but who falls in love Is fetter'd in fond Cupid's snare : My angle breeds me no such care.
Pàgina 94 - Of the river fishes, the male Glanis takes great care of its young. For the female, having brought forth, departs ; but the male, where the greatest deposit of eggs has been formed, remains by them watching, rendering no other Service except keeping off other fishes from destroying the young. He does this for forty or fifty days, until the young are sufficiently grown to escape from the other fishes. And he is known to the fishermen wherever he may chance to be watching his eggs ; for he keeps off...
Pàgina 94 - And those of the eggs that the sperm does not touch, as in the case of the sea-fishes, are useless and sterile. But in these fertile eggs, as the fishes grow larger, a kind of husk separates. And this is the envelope that encloses the egg and the young fish. When the sperm has mingled with the egg, the spawn becomes more viscous among the roots, or wherever it may have been deposited. And where the greatest quantity is deposited, the male guards the eggs. and the female, having spawned, departs....
Pàgina 94 - ... the fishes by rushing movements, and by making a noise and moaning. And he remains by the eggs with so much of natural affection, that the fishermen, when the eggs adhere to deep roots, bring them up to the shallowest place they can; but he does not even then leave his offspring, but if he chance to be a young fish, he is easily taken by the hook, because he snaps at all the fishes that approach him; but if he is already accustomed to this, and has swallowed hooks before, he does not even then...
Pàgina 60 - James A.) Book of the Black Bass; comprising its complete Scientific and Life History, together with a Practical Treatise on Angling and Fly Fishing, and a full description of Tools, Tackle, and Implements.
Pàgina 298 - ... time must be up; pushing the right pedal causes the machine to start and then with the left foot in place, the rider starts ahead — slowly at first in order to give her cavalier time to mount his wheel, which he will do in the briefest time possible. When the end of the ride is reached, the man quickly dismounts and is at his companion's side to assist her, she, in the meantime, assisting herself as much as possible. This is done — that is, dismounting in the most approved style — by riding...
Pàgina 55 - I was where the waters swish; Per if the Lord made fishin', Why — a feller orter fish! While I'm studyin', or writin', In the dusty, rusty town, I kin feel the fish a-bitin'— See the cork a-goin' down ! An' the sunshine seems a-tanglin' Of the shadows, cool an' sweet ; With the honeysuckles danglin', An' the lilies at my feet! So, I nod, an...
Pàgina vi - THE AMERICAN ANGLER'S BOOK. Embracing the Natural History of Sporting Fish, and the Art of Taking Them. With Instructions in Fly Fishing, Fly Making, and Rod Making; and Directions for Fish Breeding.

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