... know where that association came in in this arrangement. They bad fought and won the big battle, bat they were now almost bankrupt, and were certainly not in a position to pay bailiffs, or, at any rate, more than one, for thirty or forty miles of river ...

... Upon another occasion I was fishing upstream worm in the middle of summer. The river was dead low—as low as an-undischarged bankrupt's oredit, and as clear as a saint's conscience. In such a water clear-water worm was the only lure that promised a dish of ...

... being compelled to quit the old home, and the home of grand and great-grandfathers for a century and more, to wander away, bankrupt almost in purse, and many without hope I What would Oliver Goldsmith have not written, had his lot been cast in the England ...

... remembered that an angler's elaboration of the truth left no man poorer save himself, and the poorest man among them was never bankrupt so long as imagination consented to honour his drafts upon her. Credit thus superseded capital, and provided an inexhaustible ...

... day, when the water was rather low, and amused myself counting the spawning fish, which were there in such numbers as to bankrupt my arithmetic before I had gone a hundred yards. On Sundays a short cut to church led me across a small railway bridge ...

... Jaques, Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens ; 'Tie; just the fashion : wherefore do you look Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there ? ' I left the poor stricken deer as I found her. Dead she was, but how she came by her death is a mystery I had ...