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    Mr. Punch with Rod and Gun: The Humours of Fishing and Shooting
    Mr. Punch with Rod and Gun: The Humours of Fishing and Shooting
    Mr. Punch with Rod and Gun: The Humours of Fishing and Shooting
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    Mr. Punch with Rod and Gun: The Humours of Fishing and Shooting

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGood Press
    Release dateMay 19, 2021
    ISBN4064066185046
    Mr. Punch with Rod and Gun: The Humours of Fishing and Shooting

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      Mr. Punch with Rod and Gun - Good Press

      Mr. Punch with Rod and Gun: The Humours of Fishing and Shooting

      Published by Good Press, 2021

      goodpress@okpublishing.info

      EAN 4064066185046

      Table of Contents

      PREFACE

      MR. PUNCH WITH ROD AND GUN

      THE DUFFER WITH A SALMON-ROD

      REBUS IN ARDUIS

      THE GENTLE CRAFT

      THE COMPLEAT DUFFER

      A PUNT POEM

      BAIT AND WHITEBAIT

      THE LAY OF A SUCCESSFUL ANGLER

      A SPORTIVE SONG

      THE BIRDS AND THE PHEASANT

      ODE ON A DISTANT PARTRIDGE

      THE FOOL WITH A GUN

      THE FIRST OF SEPTEMBER

      SS. PATRICK AND PARTRIDGE

      THE ANATOMY OF SHOOTING

      SONG OF THE MISSING SPORTSMAN

      LE SPORT

      LOVE AMONG THE PARTRIDGES

      THE GROUSE THAT JACK SHOT

      WEDDED TO THE MOOR

      A HINT IN SEASON

      ON A DANGEROUS SHOT

      THE CHEEP OF THE PARTRIDGE

      BALLAD OF THE CUNNING PARTRIDGE

      SPORT IN SPORT

      HOW MOSSOO SHOT THE COCK-PHEASANT

      Cartoon. Mr P. juggling

      PREFACE

      Table of Contents

      As a fisherman

      Mr. Punch

      is in the best of his humours. He makes merry over the weaknesses of those who follow the craft of Old Izaak, always with the slyest of genial manners. The angler's habit of exaggerating the size of his catch—his patience or his impatience when the fish won't bite—the conscious or unconscious ridicule he has to endure from onlookers when he is unsuccessful—the proverbial thirst that attacks the fisherman, whether he catches anything or not—

      Mr. Punch

      has a keen eye for all such incidentals and presents them so jovially that nobody laughs over them more heartily than his victims themselves do.

      Man with shotgun

      Leech, Charles Keene, Phil May, Du Maurier, Raven-Hill, Bernard Partridge, G. D. Armour—most of the best-known

      Punch

      artists, old and new, have revelled in the humours of both fishing and shooting.

      Man shooting at fish.

      POTTING SHRIMPS

      He gets as much laughter out of those who handle the gun. The infinite variety of jokes he cracks about the bad shot, the man who can't hit the birds, or is always hitting the dogs or his companion guns, is amazing. He does not spare the lady shooter, and jests of the peril in which the rest of the field are placed when she is out after the birds or rabbits; and he gets a good deal of fun out of the Frenchman's alien notion of sport.

      Cartoon. Mr P fishing

      MR. PUNCH WITH ROD AND GUN

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      Observations on Ground Bait.

      —Boys are often taught, though they never learn, to regard fishing as a cruel amusement, when nevertheless angling, at least as most commonly practised in the Thames, is universally admitted to be particularly and pre-eminently the gentle craft.

      Epitaph on an Angler.

      —Hooked it.

      THE DUFFER WITH A SALMON-ROD

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      FROM THE CONFESSIONS OF A DUFFER

      No pursuit is more sedentary, if one may talk of a sedentary pursuit, and none more to my taste, than trout-fishing as practised in the South of England. Given fine weather, and a good novel, nothing can be more soothing than to sit on a convenient stump, under a willow, and watch the placid kine standing in the water, while the brook murmurs on, and perhaps the kingfisher flits to and fro. Here you sit and fleet the time carelessly, till a trout rises. Then, indeed, duty demands that you shall crawl in the manner of the serpent till you come within reach of him, and cast a fly, which usually makes him postpone his dinner-hour. But he will come on again, there is no need for you to change your position, and you can always fill your basket easily—with irises and marsh-marigolds.

      Such are our country contents, but woe befall the day when I took to salmon-fishing. The outfit is expensive, half-crown flees soon mount up, especially if you never go out without losing your fly-book. If you buy a light rod, say of fourteen feet, the chances are that it will not cover the water, and a longer rod requires in the fisherman the strength of a Sandow. You need wading-breeches, which come up nearly to the neck, and weigh a couple of stone. The question has been raised, can one

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