Tweed and Don; Or, Recollections and Reflections of an Angler for the Last Fifty Years ...W.P. Nimmo, 1860 - 152 Seiten |
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... remember catching a large eel with my fly , —a rather rare occurrence ; and , wasting all my cast line in the dark , had to give it up , not having been possessed of a second . Many a good trout have I seen taken with a very small fly ...
... remember catching a large eel with my fly , —a rather rare occurrence ; and , wasting all my cast line in the dark , had to give it up , not having been possessed of a second . Many a good trout have I seen taken with a very small fly ...
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... remember , one day in July or August 1812 , being at the back of Bonnington distillery fishing for eels , where one time they were plentiful , that , watching under the stump of an old saugh tree , I observed little bunches of hair ...
... remember , one day in July or August 1812 , being at the back of Bonnington distillery fishing for eels , where one time they were plentiful , that , watching under the stump of an old saugh tree , I observed little bunches of hair ...
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... remember an old ash tree at Dryden , near Roslin , which my father felled , and for which he gave L.37 , 15s . , — some goodly sticks or stycks in Scotland , though Dr Johnson saw none . Glencorse . I went once in 1817 , with my ...
... remember an old ash tree at Dryden , near Roslin , which my father felled , and for which he gave L.37 , 15s . , — some goodly sticks or stycks in Scotland , though Dr Johnson saw none . Glencorse . I went once in 1817 , with my ...
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... remember , twenty - five years ago , being at Kelso , either at William Pyles ' back - room , or at the Cross Keys , my old friend Yule's , a dis- sertation on fishing began among a few who were moistening their clay , ' and , after ...
... remember , twenty - five years ago , being at Kelso , either at William Pyles ' back - room , or at the Cross Keys , my old friend Yule's , a dis- sertation on fishing began among a few who were moistening their clay , ' and , after ...
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... straying ? ' I well remember spending an evening here , and when put ashore , as I supposed , on the bank , I stepped up to the middle in Tweed . Below this , the Island Stream , the Knout Seg , THE VALE OF GALA . 27.
... straying ? ' I well remember spending an evening here , and when put ashore , as I supposed , on the bank , I stepped up to the middle in Tweed . Below this , the Island Stream , the Knout Seg , THE VALE OF GALA . 27.
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Aberdeenshire angle angler Ashiestiel bait banks basket beautiful Bonnie Tweed bridge burn capital cast Castle colour coming creeper delightful doubt Edinburgh endeavoured Ettrick feet fins fisher flies flood frae gaff Gala Water Galashiels gentlemen grilse Hawick Hielan Highland hills Innerleithen Inverness iron lantern Kemnay killed land large trout leister Loch looking Lord miles mill minnow morning nearly never o'er observe once ower mony fishing partail Pectoral Fin Peebles plenty poachers pool rapid places reel remember rise river rod fishing salmo salar salmon fishing Scotland sea trout season seen seldom Selkirk shallow places side smolts song soon spawning Spey sport stone stream tail There's ower mony thing told took trail fly tree Tweed at Thornilee Tynehead upper wade walk Water of Leith whir wind worm yards
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Seite 65 - The works of the LORD are great, sought out of all them that have pleasure therein.
Seite 101 - The sire turns o'er, wi' patriarchal grace, The big ha' Bible, ance his father's pride. His bonnet rev'rently is laid aside, His lyart haffets wearing thin an' bare ; Those strains that once did sweet in Zion glide, He wales a portion with judicious care ; And " Let us worship God !
Seite 75 - The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, And greedily devour the treacherous bait...
Seite 11 - he at the best hathe " his holsom Walk and mery at his Ease, " a swete Ayre of the swete Savour of the " Meade of Flowers, that maketh him " hungry ; he heareth the melodious Har...
Seite 23 - Ev'n love an' friendship should give place To catch the plack! I dinna like to see your face Nor hear your crack. " But ye whom social pleasure charms, Whose heart the tide of kindness warms, Who hold your being on the terms Each aid the others, Come to my bowl, come to my arms, My friends and brothers.
Seite 55 - I'll sit me down and weary.' Old sony. At Roxburgh, the remains of the castle are only seen. Here it was that James II. of Scotland was killed in 1460, by the bursting of a cannon, made probably from the trunk of a tree, and hooped all round with iron. IJielso, Kelso is situated on the Tweed, in the very heart of fishing ground, near its confluence with the Teviot, a capital treating river.
Seite 64 - Through skies, where I could count each little star. The fanning west wind scarcely stirs the leaves ; The river, rushing o'er its pebbled bed, Imposes silence, with a stilly sound. In such a place as this, at such an hour, If ancestry can be in aught believed, Descending spirits have conversed with man, And told the secrets of the world unknown.