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George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor (ed. George Hillard), Chapter 20: (search)
gs, and an apparatus for shooting, ample enough to lay waste the Cape from here to Race Point, let alone a quantity of rods, water-proof breeches, and trout-destroying hooks. I have been out myself several times, with that notorious personage John Trout, That well-known angler, John Denison, usually called John Trout.— Curtis's Life of Webster, Vol. I. p. 251. and, though I cannot make up my mind to wade the brooks and the marshes as deeply as he does, I have had some luck. Mr. Ticknor ofJohn Trout.— Curtis's Life of Webster, Vol. I. p. 251. and, though I cannot make up my mind to wade the brooks and the marshes as deeply as he does, I have had some luck. Mr. Ticknor often expressed some regret that he had never found pleasure in fishing or shooting, nor in billiards, for he considered the variety of exercise thus gained to be very desirable for a student. He never liked riding, after his training for health at the riding-school in Gottingen—which, however, made him a good rider-and his long journeys in Spain. But Mr. Webster is a true sportsman. He was out thirteen hours to-day, without any regular meal, and is now as busy as a locksmith, with his guns.<