. The hunter-naturalist; romance of sporting; or, Wild scenes and wild hunters. Hunting; Natural history. TROLLING. 491 see him on this side below the bear, tumbling down the white cliflFs of Albion, from which he has just been brought by one stroke of those white gelid paws—with hoofs ia air, and upward mouth wide-stretched with bellowings ? (Piscator is an Englishman!) Eyeless Angle-worm ! can you not see ?" Piscator—^placidly—"ISo, no ! I have no eyes for your mad visions!" Ego—with furious emphasis—" Mad, are they ? ' Call at will Thine own ghost or the ghost of Jupiter
. The hunter-naturalist; romance of sporting; or, Wild scenes and wild hunters. Hunting; Natural history. TROLLING. 491 see him on this side below the bear, tumbling down the white cliflFs of Albion, from which he has just been brought by one stroke of those white gelid paws—with hoofs ia air, and upward mouth wide-stretched with bellowings ? (Piscator is an Englishman!) Eyeless Angle-worm ! can you not see ?" Piscator—^placidly—"ISo, no ! I have no eyes for your mad visions!" Ego—with furious emphasis—" Mad, are they ? ' Call at will Thine own ghost or the ghost of Jupiter, Hades, or Typhon, or what mightier gods—hey!' " A tremendous lurch! Boat nearly turned over ! My rod almost bent double ! as the boat is wheeled violently from its course, and we all thrown as violently upon our sides, for in the wake a huge trout leaped from the water, and when he falls back the boat rights, and we all look foolish. George, vehemently—" There, you've lost him !" Piscator, indignantly—" There ! if you had held your rod in your hand, instead of ranting nonsense on your back you wouldn't have lost that twelve-pounder!" Ego—faintly—" But he didn't bite at a fly, or at the hook of a fly fisher !" Moral—never troll lake trout after the first of Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Webber, Charles W. (Charles Wilkins), 1819-1856. Philadelphia, Lippincott, Grambo
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