LaconicsHolmes Book Company, 1912 - 302 pages |
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Page 13
... fish that will bite a bare hook . A golden hook needs no bait . There is a bait for every fish . A bullhead will take the bait that a trout will shy at . Have your hook always baited ; -gudgeons are plenty in every pond . Bare ...
... fish that will bite a bare hook . A golden hook needs no bait . There is a bait for every fish . A bullhead will take the bait that a trout will shy at . Have your hook always baited ; -gudgeons are plenty in every pond . Bare ...
Page 16
... fishing than do nothing . Better fight than lie down and be run over . Better a poor bone than no meat . Beware . Beware of the snare - look a leetle out , und don't put yer fut in it - till it goes off al- ready . -Hans . Beware of the ...
... fishing than do nothing . Better fight than lie down and be run over . Better a poor bone than no meat . Beware . Beware of the snare - look a leetle out , und don't put yer fut in it - till it goes off al- ready . -Hans . Beware of the ...
Page 24
... fish . We are all of the same breed - our forefathers were gorillas . Bridge . Make a bridge for your adversary to re- treat over . It is a safe bridge that falls before you get onto it . If you burn the bridge behind you , your ...
... fish . We are all of the same breed - our forefathers were gorillas . Bridge . Make a bridge for your adversary to re- treat over . It is a safe bridge that falls before you get onto it . If you burn the bridge behind you , your ...
Page 30
... fishes for cod and catches a herring ; another fishes for herring and catches a devil - fish ; another fishes for suckers and is caught on his own hook . Don't take a little chance without a big chance . Chancery . Chancery is the court ...
... fishes for cod and catches a herring ; another fishes for herring and catches a devil - fish ; another fishes for suckers and is caught on his own hook . Don't take a little chance without a big chance . Chancery . Chancery is the court ...
Page 40
... fish an ' " flap- jacks . " - Bronco Bill . Contentment . hills , Men seek for silver in the distant While in the sand gold glimmers at their feet . O man , thy wisdom is but folly still ; Wiser the brute and full of sweet content ...
... fish an ' " flap- jacks . " - Bronco Bill . Contentment . hills , Men seek for silver in the distant While in the sand gold glimmers at their feet . O man , thy wisdom is but folly still ; Wiser the brute and full of sweet content ...
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Popular passages
Page 203 - Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.
Page 34 - Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there: And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation.
Page 22 - Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in't.
Page 115 - Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round, Where'er his stages may have been, May sigh to think he still has found The warmest welcome at an inn.
Page 100 - To render happy : all who joy would win Must share it, — Happiness was born a twin.
Page 258 - O Woman ! in our hours of ease Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou!
Page 244 - Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Page 119 - Howe'er it be, it seems to me 'Tis only noble to be good. Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.
Page 175 - tis public folly feeds. The slaves of custom and establish'd mode, With packhorse constancy we keep the road, Crooked or straight, through quags or thorny dells, True to the jingling of our leader's bells. To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think...
Page 137 - I HELD it truth, with him who sings To one clear harp in divers tones, That men may rise on stepping-stones Of their dead selves to higher things.