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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: A STRANGE FISHING MATCH. No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity.?Richard III. Cheistmas is a very jolly time for folks who have their families and friends about them, provided they are pretty well to do, and the Christmas bills don't weigh too heavily on their minds. But there are a good many in this big Babylon of a metropolis who have neither families nor friends to ask them to lively Christmas dinners, with dances and forfeits and romps under the mistletoe afterwards; and to them the choice between a dreary lodging and a public-house parlour is the only choice left. Christmas, as a rule, is not much of a time for fishing, or one could easily make a pleasant day out of it; still I have known a Ohristmas or two when we have spent a happy, thankful day on some river bank too. Twenty-five years ago I was not the man I am now; I am now a master in a good way of business, but in those days I was only a poor apprentice. My friends lived 200 miles from London, down in the north, and I knew hardly anyone in town, so my Christmases were sad and solitary enough as a rule. One comfort to me was that I was fond of fishing, and in my fishing rambles I had picked up an acquaintance with an oddold fellow by the name of Harris?Ben Harris?Uncle- Ben we used to call him. I never could make out what he was, or quite where he lived. He used the same parlour that I did of an evening, and, from seeing him smoking his pipe nightly at the Don Saltero's?the old Don's, the coffee-house at Cheyne- walk, Chelsea?I got to know him, though we seldom spoke much. But we happened once or twice to meet out fishing on the Lea, and then we struck up an acquaintance which became closer and closer, so that we used to fish in all the waters round London in company, spending many a happy day together...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217490962 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217490964 |
| Weight | 0.61 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.42 In |
| List Price | $19.99 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 182 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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