 ... by, and your eyes and hands are full. Then the tide ebbs, and both fish and fowl are gone. Patiently whipping the waters of the lake from my rude float, I became an object of great interest to the loons. I had never seen these birds before in their...  The Writings of John Burroughs - עמוד 213מאת John Burroughs - 1895תצוגה מלאה - מידע על ספר זה
 | 1878 - 920 דפים
...it was enough to make a more solemn bird than the loon laugh, but it was no fun for me, and usually required my last pound of steam. The loons flew back...a swirl he swept my fly under and turned. My hook wa> too near home, and my rod too near i perpendicular to strike w^elL More than that, my presence... | |
 | 1878 - 926 דפים
...it was enough to make a more solemn bird than the loon laugh, but it was no fun for me, and usually required my last pound of steam. The loons flew back...under and turned. My hook was too near home, and my rod too near a perpendicular to strike well. More than that, my presence of mind came near being unhorsed... | |
 | Alfred Marshall Mayer - 1883 - 902 דפים
...and deeper into its surface until their momentum is arrested or converted into foam ; the fish-hawk screams, the bald eagle goes flapping by, and your...under and turned. My hook was too near home, and my rod too near a perpendicular, to strike well. More than that, my presence of mind came near being unhorsed... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 264 דפים
...momentum is arrested, or converted into foam; the fish hawk screams; the bald eagle goes flapping 1 by, and your eyes and hands are full. Then the tide...under and turned. My hook was too near home, and my rod too near a perpendicular to strike well. More than that, my presence of mind came near being unhorsed... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1895 - 262 דפים
...and made a wide circle. One day one of their number volunteered to make a thorough recbnnoissance. I saw him leave his comrades and swim straight toward...under and turned. My hook was too near home, and my rod too near a perpendicular to strike well. More than that, my presence of mind came near being unhorsed... | |
 | George Moore Fairchild - 1896 - 228 דפים
...to my hand and were released because they did not fill the bill." " One afternoon quite imexpectedly I struck my big fish in the head of the lake. I was...water was not deep just there, and he swam so near the 135 surface that his enormous back cut through. With a swirl he swept my fly under and turned. My hook... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1904 - 318 דפים
...followed, and with 'ironical laughter witnessed my efforts to stem the current at the head of the ' 230 lake. I confess it was enough to make a more solemn...under and turned. My hook was too near home, and my rod too near a perpendicular to strike well. More than that, my presence of mind came near being unhorsed... | |
 | John Burroughs - 1907 - 302 דפים
...sure to be much going on in the other. You have been casting, perhaps, for an hour with scarcely a jump or any sign of life anywhere about you, when...under and turned. My hook was too near home, and my rod too near a perpendicular to strike well. More than that, my presence of mind came near being unhorsed... | |
 | Wayne Grady - 1999 - 340 דפים
...sure to be much going on in the other. You have been casting, perhaps, for an hour with scarcely a jump or any sign of life anywhere about you, when...under and turned. My hook was too near home, and my rod too near a perpendicular to strike well. More than that, my presence of mind came near being unhorsed... | |
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