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It was the time when the fruits were coming in, when vegetables were in full yield, when fish from the Beau Cheval were to be had in plenty -- from mud-cats and suckers, pike and perch, to rock-bass, sturgeon and even maskinonge.
The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897
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It was the time when the fruits were coming in, when vegetables were in full yield, when fish from the Beau Cheval were to be had in plenty -- from mud-cats and suckers, pike and perch, to rock-bass, sturgeon and even maskinonge.
The Money Master, Volume 3. Gilbert Parker 1897
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It was the time when the fruits were coming in, when vegetables were in full yield, when fish from the Beau Cheval were to be had in plenty -- from mud-cats and suckers, pike and perch, to rock-bass, sturgeon and even maskinonge.
The Money Master, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897
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Now and again small bull-heads will be seen, and a very small rock-bass.
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The weight of rock-bass generally ranges from half a pound to thirty or forty pounds, but sometimes reaches eighty or a hundred.
Miss Parloa's New Cook Book Maria Parloa 1876
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