. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. THE SITN-FISU, LKFOUIS QIBBOBUS. THE SUN-FISHES AND THEIR ALLIES. Slowly upward, wavering, gleaming Rose the Ugudwash, the Sun-fish Seized the line ot Hiawatha, Swung with a'l his weight upon it. • * * But when Hiawatha saw him Slowly rising through the water. Lifting up his disk refulgent. Loud he shouted in derision * Esa! esa! shame upon you. You are Ugudwash, the Sun-fish; You are not the fish I wanted ; You are not the King of Fishes.' Lon
. American fishes; a popular treatise upon the game and food fishes of North America, with especial reference to habits and methods of capture. Fishes. THE SITN-FISU, LKFOUIS QIBBOBUS. THE SUN-FISHES AND THEIR ALLIES. Slowly upward, wavering, gleaming Rose the Ugudwash, the Sun-fish Seized the line ot Hiawatha, Swung with a'l his weight upon it. • * * But when Hiawatha saw him Slowly rising through the water. Lifting up his disk refulgent. Loud he shouted in derision * Esa! esa! shame upon you. You are Ugudwash, the Sun-fish; You are not the fish I wanted ; You are not the King of Fishes.' Longfellow, Hiawatha's Fisking, 'T'HE '' Pumpkin seed " and the perch are the first trophies of the boy angler. Many are the memories of truant days dreamed away by pond or brook side^ with twine pole and pin-hook, and of the slow homeward trudge, doubtful what his reception will be at home; pole gone, line broken, hooks lost, the only remnant of the morning's glory a score of lean, sun-dried perches and Sunnies, and, mayhap, a few eels and bull-heads, ignominiously strung through the gills upon a willow withe, and trailing, sometimes dropping from weary hands, in the roadside dust. Then in later youth came the excursion to some distant pond; thf. 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 Goode, G. Brown (George Brown), 1851-1896; Gill, Theodore, 1837-1914. ed. Boston, L. C. Page
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