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...bubbles contemporary on the surface. Some day someone will pull out the fish, big or little, that causes them. If not sufficiently palatable for the frying pan, it will serve excellently well if stuffed for the national museum. Meanwhile the weather is moderately good, and patience as every complete angler, and very few policeman, know makes the biggest catch...
Honors for the expedition went to the Hoover guests. No. 1 angler was Agnes Harvey Stone, plain-dressing, unrouged intellectual wife of Associate Justice Harlan Fiske Stone of the U. S. Supreme Court. Her 66-lb. sailfish, landed after a two-hour battle from dusk to moonrise eight miles out in the Atlantic, set the season's record, won her one of the Long Key fishing club's little gold buttons for a championship.* Washington society, whom the Stones entertain often and well, waited for her own account of the feat. If anyone should impolitely doubt her story...
...dialog, especially in the dialect of the stage Englishman of very high or low degree. Mr. Mulliner Speaking is a collection of his sprightly tales: the narrator in each case is the affably reminiscent Mr. Mulliner, who holds forth to his jaw-dropped cronies in the bar of the Angler's Rest. In every case the hero, or the goat, is some pinheaded nephew or vague cousin of Mr. Mulliner's: the vicissitudes related are as improbable and as fetching as the language they are told in. Uncle Cedric, onetime gnu-hunter, all-time bore, is shot...
...characteristics, Bliss Perry is best known for his literary commentaries and his skill as an angler. Even during the ten years that he was breathing the breath of life into the Atlantic Monthly, flavoring it with humor, human interest and gentle irony, he did not forego fishing or writing about it. Every complete angler is familiar with his quixotic essay "Fishing With A Worm," a stirring defense of the practice...
...characteristics. Bliss Pernis best known for his literary commentaries and his skill as an angler. Even during the ten years that he was breathing the breath of life into the Atlantic Monthly, flavoring it with humor, human interest and gentle irony, he did not forego fishing or writing about it. Every complete angler is familiar with his quixotic essay "Fishing With A Worm," a stirring defense of the practice...