The Big Game Fishes of the United StatesMacmillan, 1903 - 435 páginas |
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Página 119 - A thousand men, that fishes gnawed upon ; Wedges of gold, great anchors, heaps of pearl, Inestimable stones, unvalued jewels, All scattered in the bottom of the sea.
Página 262 - And angling, too, that solitary vice, Whatever Izaak Walton sings or says: The quaint, old, cruel coxcomb, in his gullet Should have a hook, and a small trout to pull it.
Página 132 - The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, And greedily devour the treacherous bait...
Página 205 - The Fish, the Man, and the Spirit TO A FISH You strange, astonished-looking, angle-faced, Dreary-mouthed, gaping wretches of the sea, Gulping salt water everlastingly, Cold-blooded, though with red your blood be graced, And mute, though dwellers in the roaring waste; And you, all shapes beside, that fishy be, — Some round, some flat, some long, all devilry, Legless, unloving, infamously chaste: — O scaly, slippery, wet, swift, staring wights, What is't ye do? What life lead? eh, dull goggles?
Página 316 - I shall stay him no longer than to wish him a rainy evening to read this following Discourse; and that if he be an honest Angler, the east wind may never blow when he goes a-fishing.
Página 375 - He finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive ; His tail takes in his teeth : and, bending like a bow That's to the compass drawn, aloft himself doth throw ; Then springing at his height, as doth a little wand. That, bended end to end, and flirted from the hand, Far off itself doth cast ; so doth the salmon...
Página 429 - Illustrated. The Bison, Musk-ox, Sheep, and Goat Family By GEORGE BIRD GRINNELL, OWEN WISTER, and CASPAR WHITNEY. Illustrated by CARL RUNGIUS and others. Photography for the Sportsman Naturalist By WE CARLIN. Illustrated. Further volumes will include articles on The Bear Family; The Cougar, Wild Cat, Wolf, and Fox; The Sporting Dog; American Race Horse and Running Horse; Trotting and Pacing; Riding and Driving; Yachting, Small Boat Sailing, and Canoeing; Baseball and Football; Rowing, Track Athletics,...
Página 429 - With many illustrations by AB FROST and others. THE WATER-FOWL FAMILY By LEONARD C. SANFORD, LB BISHOP, and TS VAN DYKE. With many illustrations by LA FUERTES, AB FROST, and CL BULL. BASS, PIKE, PERCH, AND PICKEREL By JAMES A.
Página 257 - The cavern'd bank, his old secure abode; And flies aloft, and flounces round the pool, Indignant of the guile. With yielding hand, That feels him still, yet to his furious course Gives way, you, now retiring, following now Across the stream, exhaust his idle rage; Till floating broad upon his breathless side, And to his fate abandon'd, to the shore You gaily drag your unresisting prize.
Página 226 - Ilucares are from 7.5 to 11.5 inches long and were seined in a small brackish pool of dark-colored water, not over 5 feet deep, in the corner of a mangrove swamp, and at that time (February) entirely separated from the ocean by a narrow strip of land scarcely 25 feet wide. The 13 others are nearly all very young, of 2.25 to 3.25 inches, collected at Fajardo.