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  • This last category proved surprisingly small, compact enough to be squeezed into the family car -- "Junior can sit on the box of fishingtackle -- it's flat -- and hold the birdcage on his lap" -- as it made ready to join the procession crawling along the clogged highways.

    Greener Than You Think Ward Moore 1940

  • “that Billy Raymond, the lame boy that supported his old mother by fishing, had called to see if the stranger gentleman would have the generosity to pay him the damages for his fishingtackle, that Miss Redwood had lost at the time of her frolic in his canoe?”

    Redwood 1824

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