. The American angler's book: embracing the natural history of sporting fish, and the art of taking them. With instructions in fly-fishing, fly-making, and rod-making; and directions for fish-breeding. To which is appended, Dies piscatoriae: describing noted fishing-places, and the pleasure of solitary fly-fishing. Illustrated with eighty engravings on wood. Fishing; Fishes. 554 AMERICAN ANGLER'S camp out for weeks. Many of these are people who live in luxury at home, who have become weary of Newport, Sara- toga, and Nahant, and come out " to rough ; Some " satisfy the
. The American angler's book: embracing the natural history of sporting fish, and the art of taking them. With instructions in fly-fishing, fly-making, and rod-making; and directions for fish-breeding. To which is appended, Dies piscatoriae: describing noted fishing-places, and the pleasure of solitary fly-fishing. Illustrated with eighty engravings on wood. Fishing; Fishes. 554 AMERICAN ANGLER'S camp out for weeks. Many of these are people who live in luxury at home, who have become weary of Newport, Sara- toga, and Nahant, and come out " to rough ; Some " satisfy the sentiment" in a single trip, others repeat the excursion year after year, until the men become passable woodsmen, and the women right good squaws. NoK. Fishing and philandering, I think, are very opposite amusements. I don't like to mix them; and meeting any num- ber of town folks amongst such places and scenes as I have heard Waker describe, would seem to me like an untimed intrusion. Nes. I think it rather adds to the charm when one can take his wife and children on such eni excursion; that is, if he. 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 Norris, Thaddeus, 1811-1877. Philadelphia, E. H. Butler
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