 | Ellen M. Cyr - 1898 - 412 pages
...would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without- a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. 3. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps... | |
 | 1898 - 200 pages
...with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even although he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling piece on his shoulders for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, and up hill and... | |
 | Ellen M. Cyr - 1899 - 406 pages
...lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. 3. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for...or wild pigeons. He would never refuse to assist a neighbor even in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man at all country frolics for husking Indian... | |
 | Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...bark at him throughout the neighborhood. encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through...or wild pigeons. He would never refuse to assist a neighbor, even in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man at all country frolics for husking Indian... | |
 | Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.) - 1899 - 920 pages
...would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy ns a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged...together, trudging through woods and swamps, and up bill and down dale, to shoot a few squirrels or wild pigeons. He would never refuse to assist a neighbour... | |
 | Richard Garnett, Léon Vallée, Alois Brandl - 1899 - 434 pages
...would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a fowling piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, and up hill and... | |
 | Washington Irving - 1899 - 220 pages
...would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. He would carry a^owling-piece 'on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps, and up hill... | |
 | Ellen M. Cyr - 1899 - 412 pages
...would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. 3. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps... | |
 | Ellen M. Cyr - 1899 - 404 pages
...would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. 3. He would carry a fowling-piece on his shoulder for hours together, trudging through woods and swamps... | |
 | Frances W. Lewis - 1900 - 328 pages
...would sit on a wttrock, with a rod as long and as heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged...or wild pigeons. He would never refuse to assist a neighbor, even in the roughest toil, and was a foremost man at all the country frolics for husking... | |
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It could not be from the want of assiduity or perseverance ; for he would sit on a wet rock, with a rod as long and heavy as a Tartar's lance, and fish all day without a murmur, even though he should not be encouraged by a single nibble. 
