Here I exchanged my nuts for pepper and good aloes-wood, and went a-fishing for pearls with some of the other merchants, and my divers were so lucky that very soon I had an immense number, and those very large and perfect.

He had been trolling around the lake in a boat alone, without much success, and concluded he would try deep fishing from this rock, as he had heard that the trout were in the habit of congregating around its base.

The little brush in which he was now engaged with the commodore, he conceived due to his own dignity, and his motive was duly to impress his companion with his superiority, which being fairly admitted, he would have been ready enough to acknowledge that the other understood pike-fishing much better than himself.

After the fall round-up, Ajax and I spent a month fishing in British Columbia.

"For who knows," said the lady, "what may happen, and whether we may be able to keep such a learned tutor long?" Frank Esmond said he for his part did not want to learn any more, and cousin Harry might shut up his book whenever he liked, if he would come out a-fishing; and little Beatrix declared she would send for Tom Tusher, and he would be glad enough to come to Castlewood, if Harry chose to go away.

Jim Pink Staggs, a dapper gentleman of ebony blackness, of pin-stripe flannels and blue serge coat altogether a gentleman of many partssat on one of the bales and indolently watched an old black crone fishing from a ledge of rocks just a little way below the wharf-boat.

Though I can't be of any use, I know, and I should have liked a fortnight's fishing so," said he in a dolorous voice, "before going to be eaten up with flies at Varnafor this Crimean expedition is all moonshine.

In the second volume, called "Daddy Takes Us Fishing," I made up a story about how Hal and Mab went to the seashore cottage, and learned to catch different kinds of fish; even the queer, pinching crabs, that turned red when you boiled them.

But in general the steep plunges, the white swirls, green and tawny pools, the gliding hush of waters between the meadows and the mesas afford little fishing and few flowers.

One evening, two of the servants crossed the shallow stream in front of the camp to enjoy some fishing.

Here he lay for some minutes, trampled on by the feet of the boatmen, until they lay on their oars to bale, when the Udaller ordered them to pull to shore, and land this spare hand, who had commenced the fishing so inauspiciously.

We rowed leisurely along the eastern shore, and in a deep bay found excellent fishing, at the mouth of a cold mountain brook.

The may-fly may be a total failure, but week after week in the early spring you may go down to the riverside with but one sort of fly, and if there are fish to be caught at all, the pale-winged olive dun will catch them; and in spite of the fact that there are a few may-flies on the water, it is with the little duns that we intend to start our fishing to-day.

He now gave up fishing and shooting, and convivial habits, and devoted himself to money-making; but not exclusively, since at this time he organized a club of twelve members, called the "Junto,"a sort of debating and reading society.

DABNEY KINZER TRIES FRESH-WATER FISHING FOR THE FIRST TIME.

When off duty, it was the custom of some of the officers to pass the time fishing in the canal at our rear.

Several of the nakodhas, or masters, have expressed a wish to abandon fishing, and occupy themselves only in trade, if there is sufficient encouragement held out to them.

But I had only strolled up to have a look at the new train, and meant to resume my fishing as soon as it had passed.

But I had seen many a man fishing, and it had always seemed to me the easiest thing in the world a man could do.

This settled the fishing for that morning, and I let Jack paddle me down the broad turbid stream, endeavouring to answer in the most comprehensible manner to his keen but utterly undeveloped intellects the innumerable questions with which he plied me about Philadelphia, about England, about the Atlantic, &c.

He's one of them San Francisco sports out here trout-fishing in the branch.

John went with them to Wytheburn, and staid all day fishing.

I tried starving him out and struck fishing, but he took to picking along the beach at low water after worms, and rubbed along on that.

Self-poise is an acrobatic feat, when a person, not loaded at the heels, undertakes trout-fishing from a birch.

It is reported that the Indians of Terra Florida vse the like fishing for the Whale.