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Their future masters won't be half so hard on them, I'll be bound. But I wouldn't assist at the sacrifice if I were you. Come down to the Den with me; we'll troll for pike, and give the clods a cricket-match. Then we'll dine early, set trimmers, and console ourselves with claret-cup under affliction." Dick laughed. Affliction, indeed, and he had never been so happy in his life!
"Good!" he exclaimed, as he saw some twenty or thirty Spaniards fall writhing to the deck; "now back to your ordnance, men, and be ready to fire when I give the word. Sail trimmers, let fly all sheets and halliards, and stand by with your grapnels!"
Several pike were brought ashore, but none of any size. It had been the habit of the former owner of Rosendal to use nets, and take out the largest fish, so as not to allow a few monsters to tyrannize over the rest of the fish in the lake. The boys had seen similar tackle to the English trimmers, but neither so neat nor effective.
Dick went to bed that night very tired, and dropped asleep directly, thinking of Dave and the expedition to set trimmers, or "liggers" as they called them, and he was soon in imagination afloat upon the lanes and pools of water among the reeds, with Dave softly thrusting down his pole in search of hard places, where the point would not sink in.
Fishing in Le Morvan The naturalists The Gour of Akin The English lady The mountain streams Château de Chatelux Sermiselle New mode of killing pike Pierre Pertuis The rocks and whirlpool there The syrens of the grotto Château des Panolas The Cousin The ponds of Marot and lakes of Lomervo Mode of taking fish with live trimmers The Scotch farmer.
Such, the vehement Whigs exclaimed, were the natural fruits of that great error which King William had committed on the first day of his reign. He had placed in Tories and Trimmers a confidence which they did not deserve.
Bainbridge, breakfasts here to-day with some of his family. But the season is too early. They have had no sport accordingly after trying with Trimmers. Mr. Bainbridge is a good cut of John Bull plain, sensible, and downright; the maker of his own fortune, and son of his own works. May 10. To-morrow I leave my home. To what scene I may suddenly be recalled, it wrings my heart to think.
Instead, he merely continued to grin while Billy remained in sight. Then instead of going on to Beth's, he circled a building and returned down street towards McCoppet's. Unfortunately for Bostwick he knew no ruffians in the camp none of the Trimmers who would, perhaps, accept a sum of money to waylay a man, bash him over the head, and filch required letters from his pocket.
Against the force thus collected, Sligo could not hope to contend, and soon, from that town, as from a rallying and resting place, 2,000 horsemen were daily launched upon the adjoining country. Lord Clanrickarde, the royal president of the province, as unpopular as trimmers usually are in times of crisis, was unable to make head against this new danger.
The first, a Puritan, and almost a regicide, held office but a few months; the second, a cavalier and a friend of toleration, for two years; while Essex, one of those fair-minded but yielding characters, known in the next reign as "Trimmers," petitioned for his own recall and Ormond's restoration, in 1676.
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