The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 59
ith tallow or mutton suet,which has invariably prevented their obstinate adhesion. In our illustrations we have given (Fig. 1) the best ordinaryform of general bag rod, the convenient walking-stick, andthe butts of trolling and fly rods. In Fig. 2, the ordinary riverfish, from the tiny minnow to… … T has often puzzled me, when seeing a number of egg-shellslying upon the kitchen table,why the ingenious fancy-worker has not oftener triedher skill upon an article sobeautifully and symmetricallymodelled by Nature, andwhich it would be no waste ofmaterial to persevere upon tomake up into articles…
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