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“A landlocked state with no commercial fishery that I've ever heard of ... why would they be impressed with such a 'fish-story'?”
“That's exactly like you!" cried her brother Charlie; "now, I say give us some exciting adventures by sea or by land; a real fish-story, or escape from a lion or tiger, or a tale of a bear, or something of that sort.”
Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside
“But my hat is off to him, after all, for he had ready for us, and swears to this day to its truth, the best fish-story of the trip.”
Tenting To-night A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the Cascade Mountains
“Plutarch, in THE LIVES OF THE NOBLE GRECIANS AND ROMANS, tells a capital fish-story of the manner in which the Egyptian Cleopatra fooled that far-famed Roman wight, Marc Antony, when they were angling together on the Nile.”
“This he would have me believe was the foundation of this fish-story.”
“All that is told of the sea has a fabulous sound to an inhabitant of the land, and all its products have a certain fabulous quality, as if they belonged to another planet, from sea-weed to a sailor's yarn, or a fish-story.”
“I should with reluctance stain these pages with a fiction; and yet the public would have just reason to resent a fish-story without any fish in it.”
The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner
“At length in a small brook flowing into the Middle River we found the trout more sociable; and it is lucky that we did so, for I should with reluctance stain these pages with a fiction; and yet the public would have just reason to resent a fish-story without any fish in it.”
“The best English fish-story pure and simple, that I know, is "Crocker's”
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