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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1894 Excerpt: ... now and then landing a fish with marvellous ease and rapidity, such as elsewhere one would have to toil half a day for. It was a stirring and exciting episode while it lasted, with those splendid great crags rising above us, tier after tier and pinnacle upon pinnacle, until their uppermost points seemed touching the stars, and the strange melancholy night-talk of the sea-fowl upon their ledges coming to us dim and elfin-like in the silence. As the night wore on the full moon brought out, against the ebony shadows behind, every fret and weather-worn tracery of that tremendous cliff like an ivory carving, and down below the loons were calling to each other out in the open, the seals purring over their supper far away upon the sand-flats of the bay, and the tide, as black as ink in the shadows, draping the low rocks as it rose and fell with a glowing drapery of phosphorescence, set with the stars of minute but unnumbered and brightly glittering medusae. We got our sackful of salmon, an honest sackful, full up to the topmost hem, and when the tide had failed us and sport for the night was over we left it upon a safe ledge to be called for by some friendly fisherman in the morning, with a white handkerchief tied over the mouth to scare the hooded crows who would be sure to scent the spoil at daylight, and then, scrambling back as we had come, we had a pipe and some whiskey, and finally turned in upon the hard bunks of David's cottage to glorious dreams in which mermaids, and salmon, and medusae, and deep-sea caves were all hopelessly mixed up together in a delightful medley. NOTES ON NOVELTIES. REAMLAND is once more the subject of Mr. A. C. Havell's humorous pencil, and, having already depicted in the two well-known coloured prints the slumbering idiosyncrasies ...
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