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What would have been Tregarva's answer, I cannot tell; but Lancelot, who had unintentionally overheard the greater part of the conversation, disliked being any longer a listener, and came close to them. 'Here's your gudgeons and minnows, sir, as you bespoke, quoth Harry; 'and here's that paternoster as you gave me to rig up. Beautiful minnows, sir, white as a silver spoon.
As for these young men, this life with the girls was all the life they knew. There were fishing parties, of course, at the "Falls" when the gudgeons were biting, and picnics in the woods; and there were oyster roasts in winter, and watermelon parties in summer but the girls must he present, too.
We were soon settled in a comfortable inn that prided itself, not without reason, upon its cuisine. Here we had a friture of gudgeons from the Dronne, which is famous throughout a wide region for the quality of these and other fish. The next morning I bought a saucepan, a melon, and grapes which were already ripe, although the date was the 9th August.
This was agreed to; and Buonamico instantly mounting his scaffold, removed the great gilt diadem from the head of the saint, and replaced it with a coronet of gudgeons. This accomplished, he paid his host, and set off to Florence.
For him the coursing meetings cannot come too often; the swarming gudgeons flock to his net; he arranges the odds almost as he chooses with the help of his friends; and simpletons who do not know a greyhound from a deerhound bet wildly not on dogs, but on names. The "sport" has all the uncertainty of roulette, and it is villainously cruel into the bargain.
"Theer," cried Dave, looking up; "what do you say to them for bait, eh?" "Why, they're gudgeons, Dave!" cried Dick. "Ay, lad, gudgeons." "Where did you get them?" asked Tom. "There are no gudgeons in the fen waters." "Not as I iver see," said Dave with his quiet laugh.
A. To find the proper size of a cast iron gudgeon adapted to sustain any given weight: multiply the weight in lbs. by the intended length of bearing expressed in terms of the diameter; divide the product by 500, and extract the square root of the quotient, which is the diameter in inches. Q. What was Mr. Watt's rule for the strength of gudgeons?
One sees more mares' nests than would fill a book; the other pure gold in pinchbeck wares; and both are out for gudgeons.
He refers to almost every fruit and vegetable and meat that we now use to cabbages, leeks, turnips, asparagus, beans, beets, peas, lettuces, radishes, mushrooms, truffles, pulse, lentils, among vegetables; to pheasants, ducks, doves, geese, capons, pigeons, partridges, peacocks, Numidian fowls, cranes, woodcocks, swans, among birds; to mullets, lampreys, turbots, oysters, prawns, chars, murices, gudgeons, pikes, sturgeons, among fish; to raisins, figs, quinces, citrons, dates, plums, olives, apricots, among fruit; to sauces and condiments; to wild game, and to twenty different kinds of wine; on all of which he expatiates like an epicure.
"Ay, ay! good-natured, generous, jolly, full of fun; there are a number of other names for the good qualities the devil leaves his children, as baits to catch gudgeons with. D'ye think folk could be led astray by one who was every way bad? Howe'er, that's not what I came to talk about. I've seen Mr.
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