The Popular recreator. A key to in-door and out-door amusements .. (1873)
London, New York [etc.] Cassell, Petter & Galpin · leaf 638
enough, when thepike are on the feed, to insure a good bag. To render the baitstill more compact the mouth should be sewn up, and a turn orso taken with the thread round the gimp, to keep all in posi-tion. But this bait will only last in open waters, where itdoes not get in contact with weeds or… … THE CHUB. a perhaps fruitless chase, but it is an implanted instinct in thecreatures of the water, as it is equally so in many inhabitantsof the earth and air, to select those organisms for their foodwhich are about to die, and would otherwise become putrid, andencumber the element in which they…
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