 | Charles Bowlker - 1826 - 164 pages
...a goose or duck, and she chaced over a pond, will make excellent sport. A rod twelve feet long, and a ring of wire, A winder and barrel, will help thy desire In killing a Pike : hut the forked stick, With a slit and a bladder ; and that other fine trick, Which our artists call... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1833 - 350 pages
...of note, that pretended to do me a courtesy. J But if this direc* A rod twelve feet long, and a rinp of wire, A winder and barrel, will help thy desire...two for one, if you have any luck ; The gentry of Sbropshire do merrily smile, To see a goose and a belt the fish to beguile. When a Pike suns himself,... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1833 - 380 pages
....J But if this direc* A rod twelve feet long, and a ring of wire, A winder and barrel, will help "-- '--•In killing a Pike ; but the forked stick. With...luck ; The gentry of Shropshire do merrily smile, To see a goose and a belt the fish to heguile. When a Pike suns himself, and a frogling doth go, The... | |
 | George Agar Hansard - 1834 - 260 pages
...question, among all this fishing, but we shall take a brace of good pikes. " A rod twelve feet long, and a ring of wire, A winder and barrel, will help thy...artists call Snap, with a goose or a duck, Will kill two to one, if thou have any luck. The gentry of Shropshire do merrily smile, To see a goose and a belt... | |
 | George Agar Hansard - 1834 - 254 pages
...question, among all this fishing, but we shall take a brace of good pikes. " A rod twelve feet long, and a ring of wire, A winder and barrel, will help thy...and a bladder, and that other fine trick, Which our artiste call Snap, with a goose or a duck, Will kill two to one, if thou have any luck. The gentry... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton - 1835 - 348 pages
...friend of note, that pretended to do me a courtesy. J But if this direc* A rod twelve feet long, and a ring of wire, A winder and barrel, will help thy...and a bladder, and that other fine trick, Which our artiste rait snap, with a goose or a duck, Will kill two for one, if you have any luck; The gentry... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1836 - 358 pages
...; but the forked stick, With a Alt and a bladder, and that other fine trick, Which our artists rail snap, with a goose or a duck, Will kill two for one, if you have aoy luck ; The gentry of Shropshire do merrily smile, To aee a goose and a belt the fish to beguile.... | |
 | Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton, Henry George Bohn - 1856 - 634 pages
...with live-baits. And for your dead-bait for a pike, for that you may be 1 A rod twelve feet long and a ring of wire, A winder and barrel, will help thy...luck ; The gentry of Shropshire do merrily smile, To see a goose and a belt the fish to beguile. When a Pike suns himself, and a-frogging doth go, The... | |
 | Izaak Walton - 1856 - 592 pages
...with live-baits. And for your dead-bait for a pike, for that you may be 1 A rod twelve feet long and a ring of wire, A winder and barrel, will help thy...killing a Pike : but the forked stick, With a slit and a bladder,—and that other fine trick, Which our artists call snap, with a goose or a cluck,— Will... | |
 | Henry Cholmondeley-Pennell - 1865 - 296 pages
...angling," had not apparently much notion of the art of rhyming : — " A rod twelve feet long, and a ring of wire, A winder and barrel, will help thy...goose or a duck : Will kill two for one if you have good luck : The gentry of Shropshire do merrily smile, To see a goose and a belt the fish to beguile."... | |
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A rod twelve feet long and a ring of wire, A winder and barrel, will help thy desire In killing a Pike : but the forked stick, With a slit and a bladder, — and that other fine trick, Which our artists call snap, with a goose or a duck, — Will kill... 
