. 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 pleasures of solitary fly-fishing. Fishing; Fishes. 586 AMERICAN ANGLER'S BOOK. the flj-fislier sees them running along the pebbly margin of the Trout stream (as A¥ilson truly says), " continually nod- ding their heads;" sometimes starting with their peculiar short shrill note, from their nests in the wa
. 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 pleasures of solitary fly-fishing. Fishing; Fishes. 586 AMERICAN ANGLER'S BOOK. the flj-fislier sees them running along the pebbly margin of the Trout stream (as A¥ilson truly says), " continually nod- ding their heads;" sometimes starting with their peculiar short shrill note, from their nests in the wave-washed tufts of long grass, flapping along the creek sideways, as if wounded in leg or wing, to decoy the fancied destroyer from the nest of downy little snipelings. And there, where the waters of the noisy rapid finds rest in the broad shallow below, is one perched on a big gray boulder, as gray as her- self. How lonely she seems there, like the last of her race, were it not that her constant mate is on the strand below, busily engaged picking up larva and seedling muscles for its little ones in the nest up the 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; Norris, Thaddeus, 1811-1877. Dies piscatoriae. Philadelphia : E. H. Butler ; London : Sampson, Low
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