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Angling Sketches - Andrew Lang
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“These papers do not boast of great sport. They are truthful,
not like the tales some fishers tell. They should appeal to many
sympathies. There is no false modesty in the confidence with which
I esteem myself a duffer, at fishing. Some men are born duffers;
others, unlike persons of genius, become so by an infinite capacity
for not taking pains. Others, again, among whom I would rank myself,
combine both these elements of incompetence. Nature, that made
me enthusiastically fond of fishing, gave me thumbs for fingers,
short-sighted eyes, indolence, carelessness, and a temper which
(usually sweet and angelic) is goaded to madness by the laws of
matter and of gravitation. For example: when another man is caught
up in a branch he disengages his fly; I jerk at it till something
breaks…..”
Contents:
The Confessions of a Duffer
A Border Boyhood
Loch Awe
Loch-Fishing
Loch Leven
The Bloody Doctor
The Lady or the Salmon?
A Tweedside Sketch
The Double Alibi
The Complete Bungler
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107 |
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Yes |
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515kb approx. |
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