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In the modern history of angling there are one or two features that should be touched upon. The great increase in the number of fishermen has had several results. One is a corresponding increase in the difficulty of obtaining fishing, and a notable rise in the value of rivers, especially those which are famed for salmon and trout.

The fewest fish were caught by Lavretsky and Lisa; probably this was because they paid less attention than the others to the angling, and allowed their floats to swim back right up to the bank. The high reddish reeds rustled quietly around, the still water shone quietly before them, and quietly too they talked together.

He then pursued his way by the river, labouring under acute emotions, and half a mile down stream met a lad engaged in angling. Abel Dinnett had returned home and was making holiday until his mother should discover work for him, or he himself be able to get occupation.

She labours hard after the marvellous! She has been angling again in the muddy pool of paradox, and has hooked up a new dogma! And what is it? Why nothing less than an asseveration that the promise she made me is not binding! Promises are non-entities: they mean nothing, stand for nothing, and nothing can claim.

Lincoln had to be very wary in angling for the vote of the Abolitionists, who had recently been the objects of universal obloquy, and were still offensive to a large section of the Republican party. On one occasion, the opinions which he propounded by no means suited the Abolitionists, and "they required him to change them forthwith.

But at last, looking up and down the country, his angling eye caught sight of a trout-stream, and, as if he had in a moment forgotten all about his book at home and all that this saintly man had contributed to it, Guthrie asked him if he had a fishing-rod, and if he would give him a loan of it.

In the third a small dead fish is caused to dart up and down in the water without revolving; it conveys the same idea as the spinning fish, though the manipulation is different. Bottom-Fishing. Bottom-fishing is the branch of angling which is the most general.

Pythias is seventeen by the way and wants to work his way through college." "Mother of men!" said Kenny softly and thought of Joan's relief. "Sounds very beautiful and lofty in a letter," went on Whitaker, angling for sympathy, "but of all the damned, high-falutin' lunacy I've ever seen in men, that's the limit." He waited, confident in his expectation that Kenny would agree.

'It's for the angling competition, she said. We said, 'What's that? 'Why, she said, slicing cucumber like beautiful machinery while she said it, 'a lot of anglers come down some particular day and fish one particular bit of the river. And the one that catches most fish gets the prize. They're fishing the pen above Stoneham Lock. And they all come here to dinner.

"I met her at the Post where he commanded and, later, I saw her in Washington and New York. She had been in Pittsburgh for several months before I left angling for some of the nouveaux riches, I fancy. There was plenty of gossip of her in the Clubs; though I, alone, I think, know her true history." "And you did not warn anyone of her?"