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Excerpt from Fish-Tails, and Some True OnesI became a slave: I am still in bondage, and every year adds a new rivet to my fetters so this book is the safety-valve of an over charged existence.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally rec...
Excerpt from Norwegian and Other Fish-TalesMy second object, when I have laid this little volume at your feet, and created possibly one false impression, is to remove another. In a former book on the same subject, with a similar title, I dealt faithfully with the sports men who were good enough to read it, and with the exception of one story, palpably fictitious, I wrote only what was true but in the preface I falsely pretended that I was a Co...
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bTitle:/b Rough Mischance. An explanation. [A novel.]br/br/bPublisher:/b British Library, Historical Print Editionsbr/br/The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books,...
Excerpt from Fish-Tails, and Some True Ones
I became a slave: I am still in bondage, and every year adds a new rivet to my fetters so this book is the safety-valve of an over charged existence.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digit...
Excerpt from Norwegian and Other Fish-Tales
My dear Brother,
I respectfully dedicate this book to you. I might, of course, select for this purpose any of the great names which naturally occur to the mind in connection with fishing, the government of the country, art, or letters, and do pretend to some transient connection with the makers of history. I should thus, no doubt, obtain an autograph letter from, say the Prime Minister, the Lord C...