The boy's holyday book, for all seasons : containing complete instructions for angling, swimming, conjuring, the making of fireworks, cricket, archery, gymnastics, and the various games for boys : numerous scientific experiments & amusements : elucidations of photography, electrotype, and daguerreotype : arithmetical pastimes : the language of the deaf & dumb, &c. : with numerous engravings (1840)
London. : G.H. Davidson · leaf 44
28 THE ANGLER S GUIDE. … THE SAMLET, OR SKEDGER TROUT. The general shape of trouts is rather long than broad : in several of the Scotch and Irish lakes and rivers, they grow so much thicker than those of England, t tat a tisu from eighteen to twenty-two inches will often weigh from three to five pounds. The trout is a fish…
Boys · Amusements
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