Word: rodding
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...look dangerous?" Here was a nice opening for a pretty speech; but as I did not think it quite good taste to make a pretty speech upon such short acquaintance, I merely remarked, "No, you don't "(for she certainly did not), and, throwing down my rod and basket, seated myself on the grass at her feet. After a rather painful silence of a few moments, during which she scanned my face with a somewhat naive curiosity, I rushed into the breach in the conversation with, "Are you at Wellesley College?" "Yes, I am," said she. "Guess...
Still the sun-lit golden-rod...
...rule my heart with a rod of steel...
...needs for his first season a guide for each member of his party; then, as to provisions, there must be coffee, crackers, condensed milk, potatoes, rice, canned meats and vegetables, - in fact, whatever you want that is portable and will keep. The rod should be fifteen to nineteen feet long, split bamboo in three joints being rather the best, although the Irish poles of two joints are good. Tents, too, have to be taken, and tent-life is well enough as a novelty, although the experienced angler prefers the huts of the natives, when there are any. The line, about...
...Golden-rod and sunflowers glow...