Sport in art; an iconography of sport during four hundred years from the beginning of the fifteenth of the end of the eighteenth centuries (1913)
Baillie-Grohman, William A. (William Adolph), 1851-1921 · London, Ballantyne and co., ltd · leaf 346
hat on the occasion of someponds being laid dry to get atthe fish, the captured bag was carried home in a woodentrough. While being thusconveyed overland by twomen, a large pike escaped,and three men with torches were sent back when the loss was discovered. Theyfound the lost fish, but in a… … FIG. 204. CURIOUS INCIDENT OF A LIVE FOX BEINGCAUGHT BY A LARGE PIKE WHICH HAD ESCAPEDFROM A FISH TROUGH WHILE BEING CARRIED OVER-LAND. IT OCCURRED IN THE YEAR 1723 IN PYRBAUMIN THE COUNTSHIP OF WALDSTEIN. THE PIKEWEIGHED 15 LB. BY RIDINGER (TH. 317). See Page 3°5 * The original drawing of this…
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