Word: season
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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When not the proper season...
...places, while the old, as in a game of ball, are forced off their bases to make way for the new. This is inevitable. It is life. Nevertheless, it is hard for some men. They regret the old, are fearful of the new. Under all the festivities of the season there flows a strong current of deep feeling. The joy of arrival at any stage in life's journey is never unmingled with regret for the past. All men are sobered rather than exhilarated on the approach of any such epoch. The shadows are even stronger by contrast with...
...spawn, and return with them as they go down the stream. Never go fishing alone in this country; it is an art in itself, and one needs a teacher at first. Many of the gentlemen who boast of the salmon they have taken in a season have allowed their guides to do most of the real angling...
...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...
...must repeat that this sport is expensive at any rate, and especially so for the first season, but it is invigorating and full of excitement, and has something wild and unique about it that recommends it to the sportsman...