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Their fishing-tackle does credit to their inventive faculties, especially a sort of case constructed of small sticks and split bamboo-canes, which the fish cannot get out of when once in. They also use nets of the shape of large wallets, lines, and harpoons. Their canoes, in which they spend more than half their lives, are wonderfully adapted to their requirements.
He therefore neatly coils up his fishing-tackle preparatory to shaping a course for home; for the moon is on the very verge of the western horizon, and he knows therefore that it is past midnight.
For three days I was hurried from place to place, and not a single thing that I liked to do did I do I was completely put out of my own way my ideas were forced into new channels. I heard of nothing but of fishing and fishing-tackle of the pleasures there would be in the shooting season of shooting-jackets, and powder-horns, and guns, and proof guns.
During the season the fishermen from all the resorts at the south end of the Lake bring their patrons over in this direction. The Inn has its own fleet of gasoline launches and row boats, with experienced men to handle them, and it supplies fishing-tackle free, but those who wish to use the rod must bring that with them.
The guide, whom we found a very intelligent, friendly old man, informed us that up this river there was a road which led over the mountains to the Missouri." To add to their difficulties, game had almost entirely disappeared, and the abundant fish in the river could not be caught for lack of proper fishing-tackle.
There he habitually left his rods and fishing-tackle; there, for intervals in his turbid, riotous life, he had sojourned for two or three days together, fancying the first day that the country was a heaven, and convinced before the third that it was a purgatory. An old woman, of neat and tidy exterior, came forth to greet him.
With memories stirred by draughts of long untasted coffee, it was not difficult for Timmie to tell his Story. "When I left the settlement," he began, as he turned his mooseskin, hammock-like chair toward the open fireplace, and invited his guests to do likewise, "I struck straight into the wilderness. I had a little food, a small rifle and fishing-tackle.
He went on with these pranks for some years, till he took a fit of the blue devils. "'Come away, Ned, to the lake, with me, said he; 'I am weary of my life, and I want a change. "'Shall we take the fishing-tackle? says I. 'The black bass are in prime season, and F will lend us the old canoe. He's got some capital rum up from Kingston. We'll fish all day, and have a spree at night.
I shall go back to the life from which He called me three years ago, and if it pleases Him to come again, He can find us now, as He found us once, among the fishing-tackle. The proposal met with an instant assent: "We also go with thee."
Reminders of the sea and of the life that is lived in ships were conspicuous features everywhere, in the pastoral scenes that began as soon as the town ended. Women carrying sails and nets toiled through the green aisles of the roads and lanes. Fishing-tackle hung in company with tattered jerseys outside of huts hidden in grasses and honeysuckle.
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