Salmon-fishing in Canada, by a resident [W.A. Adamson] ed. by sir J.E. Alexander |
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... take in all but my casting line . Again I looked and peered and peeped and stared and blinked into the dark waters , but nothing could I see of my tormentor . After waiting for a while I INTRODUCTORY AND EGOTISTICAL . 13.
... take in all but my casting line . Again I looked and peered and peeped and stared and blinked into the dark waters , but nothing could I see of my tormentor . After waiting for a while I INTRODUCTORY AND EGOTISTICAL . 13.
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... looked in his face for an explanation , when he pointed to the salmon's head , where , to my surprise , I saw another fly fast hooked close under his eye . Ross looked even more surprised than I did , for upon examination he found that ...
... looked in his face for an explanation , when he pointed to the salmon's head , where , to my surprise , I saw another fly fast hooked close under his eye . Ross looked even more surprised than I did , for upon examination he found that ...
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... looked in his face for an explanation , when he pointed to the salmon's head , where , to my surprise , I saw another fly fast hooked close under his eye . Ross looked even more surprised than I did , for upon examination he found that ...
... looked in his face for an explanation , when he pointed to the salmon's head , where , to my surprise , I saw another fly fast hooked close under his eye . Ross looked even more surprised than I did , for upon examination he found that ...
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... looked up into the bright eyes of as beautiful a quaker girl as ever I seen in this world , and says , ' Hannah , would'st thou like to go ? ' to which she answered by a smile like the sun on the wather : Oh but her lips and her eyes ...
... looked up into the bright eyes of as beautiful a quaker girl as ever I seen in this world , and says , ' Hannah , would'st thou like to go ? ' to which she answered by a smile like the sun on the wather : Oh but her lips and her eyes ...
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... looked like ould Neptune in Lord Clare's fountain . Down we went till all the line was nearly off his reel , when I stopped her again , and again the Quaker took to winding up , and we got over the log , and Dinny cries out , I see him ...
... looked like ould Neptune in Lord Clare's fountain . Down we went till all the line was nearly off his reel , when I stopped her again , and again the Quaker took to winding up , and we got over the log , and Dinny cries out , I see him ...
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