The Practice of Angling, Particularly as Regards Ireland, Volumes 1-2 |
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Popular passages
Page 33 - A little neglect may breed great mischief: for want of a nail the shoe was lost ; for want of a shoe the horse was lost ; and for want of a horse the rider was lost, being overtaken and slain by the enemy ; all for want of a little care about a horse-shoe nail.
Page 189 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 193 - Like leaves on trees the race of man is found, Now green in youth, now withering on the ground ; Another race the following spring supplies, They fall successive, and successive rise: So generations in their course decay, So flourish these, when those are past away.
Page 62 - ... smaller size, and not so gaudy as the one you commenced with ; try him again, but do not dog him; three or four casts will determine whether he will take or not. " If the river is narrow, and that you can get over to the off side, throw from thence, so that the fly may come over him the reverse way to that he first observed, and it is ten to one he will thon have you.
Page 172 - Provided always, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to render liable to any Penalty any Person who shall be able satisfactorily to prove that he was prevented by Floods, Storm, or Stress of Weather from removing such Leaders or making such Openings as aforesaid, during the Continuance of such Prevention, but no longer.
Page 63 - ... have you. I have witnessed the most decided success from this method, both in my own case and in that of others with whom I have angled, and who have tried this practice. " If all fails at that time, and that you purpose returning to where you had risen him, which may not be much out of your way, let him, alone, till, in the common phrase, the sun goes back of him, for in the early spring, 'tis full time to commence at ten AM.
Page 318 - But these examples yield to what he said he witnessed on Dromore. A large pike having been hooked and nearly exhausted, was suddenly seized in the water and carried to the bottom. Every effort was made for nearly half an hour to bring this enormous fish to shore, but to no purpose ; at length, however, by making a noise with the oars and pulling at the line, the anglers succeeded. On getting up the pike which they had been playing, it was all torn as if by a large dog...
Page 315 - The small trout, the salmon-fry, a small herring, the tail of an eel spangled and tinselled, are excellent" [bait, as well as the frog] ; "so is a small-sized jack, and sometimes a good-sized one; so is a goldfinch, a swallow, or a yellow» hammer." And so on with the " so is" ad infinilum. No doubt, if a man was to put on a horse's head, or a sheep's paunch, he would kill some extraordinary beast or another, that the local paper would bray about, and a set of semi-barbarians wash down with whiskey-and-water....