The Project Gutenberg eBook, With Rod and Line in Colorado Waters, by Lewis B. France

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WITH
Rod AND Line
IN
Colorado Waters.


DENVER:
CHAIN, HARDY & CO.
BOOKSELLERS & PUBLISHERS.
1884.



WITH
ROD AND LINE
IN
COLORADO WATERS.

“Wha ever heard o’ a gude angler being a bad or indifferent man?”

—Noctes.

DENVER
CHAIN, HARDY & CO.,
Booksellers and Publishers.
1884.


Entered according to act of Congress in the year eighteen hundred and
eighty-four, by
CHAIN, HARDY & CO.,
in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington, D. C.
DAVID ATWOOD,
PRINTER AND STEREOTYPER,
MADISON, WIS.


CONTENTS.

PAGE.
Many Years Ago[7]
Over the Range[14]
Fisherman’s Luck[22]
Agapae[31]
Black Lake in 1878[38]
Egotism and—Rods[51]
Troublesome[57]
Meteorological[64]
Mules[71]
Music and Meteorology[77]
Philosophy[85]
An Idle Morning at Grand Lake[93]
Camping with Ladies and—the Baby[99]
Boys and Burros[107]
He’s No Sardine[124]
Under Difficulties[131]
His Sermon[141]

Poor drudge of the city! how happy he feels
With the burs on his legs and the grass at his heels;
No Dodger behind, his bandannas to share;
No Constable grumbling: ‘You must n’t walk there!’

—Holmes.