The American Angler, Volume 29

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William Charles Harris
Angler's Publishing Company, 1899
 

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Page 139 - Our death, the tree of knowledge, grew fast by, Knowledge of good, bought dear by knowing ill. Southward through Eden went a river large, Nor changed his course, but through the shaggy hill Passed underneath engulfed ; for God had thrown.
Page 139 - Forthwith the sounds and seas, each creek and bay, With fry innumerable swarm, and shoals Of fish, that with their fins and shining scales Glide under the green wave, in sculls that oft Bank the mid sea...
Page 209 - Health, through its proper officers, shall so order, such privy shall be empticu by the owner, agent or tenant, within forty-eight hours after notice, under a penalty not exceeding twenty-five dollars, and in default of payment of the fine, imprisonment not exceeding thirty days in the Parish jail.
Page 141 - Notwithstanding, lest we should offend them, go thou to the sea, and cast an hook, and take up the fish that first cometh up; and when thou hast opened his mouth, thou shalt find a piece of money: that take, and give unto them for me and thee.
Page 23 - I go a-gunning, but take no gun ; I fish without a pole ; And I bag good game and catch such fish As suit a sportsman's soul ; For the choicest game that the forest holds, And the best fish of the brook, Are never brought down by a rifle shot And never are caught with a hook. I bob...
Page 141 - They take up all of them with the angle, they catch them in their net, and gather them in their drag: therefore they rejoice and are glad.
Page 141 - There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, which brought fish, and all manner of ware, and sold on the Sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.
Page 23 - Or fish that swim the seas. A rodless Walton of the brooks, A bloodless sportsman I, — I hunt for the thoughts that throng the woods, The dreams that haunt the sky. The woods were made for the hunters of dreams...
Page 209 - No person shall haul or take herring by or in a seine or other such contrivance on or near any part of the coast of this colony or of its dependencies, or in any of the bays, harbors, or other places therein, at any time between the 20th day of October and the 25th day of April.
Page 198 - There is one glory of the sun, another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars ; for one star differeth from another star in glory.

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