. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. OIK KNf; IKII'.NI). HiTc is a sketch from life of a jolly Mnjflisii jfentleman, who gels thoroughly disgusted every time he loses a rtsh. He- then, without saying a word, (juits the business, puts his hack against a smooth tree, and takes a short nap. leaving others to thrash the pools. It is worthy of note that one need niver fear meeting snohs, swells, or disagreeable people fishing for salmon. The air of a first-class stream seems fatal
. Sport with gun and rod in American woods and waters [microform]. Hunting; Hunting; Fishing; Fishing; Chasse; Chasse; Pêche sportive; Pêche sportive. OIK KNf; IKII'.NI). HiTc is a sketch from life of a jolly Mnjflisii jfentleman, who gels thoroughly disgusted every time he loses a rtsh. He- then, without saying a word, (juits the business, puts his hack against a smooth tree, and takes a short nap. leaving others to thrash the pools. It is worthy of note that one need niver fear meeting snohs, swells, or disagreeable people fishing for salmon. The air of a first-class stream seems fatal to all such. The last of June, 1S74, found Mr. Lazell and the writer tired out with close attention to duties, and with barely frame-work enough left "to veneer a decent man upon," rendezvousing at the office; of I'red. Curtis, I-^sq., in Boston, preparatory to setting out for (laspe Masin, Canada luist. /\n idler cannot appreciate fully the enjoyment we felt in anticipa- tion of several weeks (Mitirt- freedom from business of any sort. To get so far from civilization that no irascible inventor can find you and argue his case until your head seems ready to l)urst; no client can bore you for hours without giving a single imi)ortant fact in his case; and where you will h<;ar of no impecunious creditor's paper going to protest,—is worth a large amount of preliminary toil. After having, as Lazell asserted, taken an outfit sufficient for a whaling voyage, we devoted still a day to getting little odds and ends which Curtis's had taught him to provide — things which seemed superfluous, and in fact almost absurd, and yet worth their weight in gold when one is thirty miles from a settlement. Lazell finally, getting a little out of patience, sarcastically insisted upon our taking a crutch, in case any one should lose a leg. Six weeks later, when my unfortunate friend, after cooling off too sud- denly from a twelve-mile walk on a hot day, found himself unab
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