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Artificial Baits For Fishing - (Found June 29, 2008 )

It is maintained that the spoon as a bait for predatory fish was first discovered by accident in the United States, and at the Chicago World's Fair, what was labelled as the first spoon ever used in angling.
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Baseball - Early Thoughts - (Found June 29, 2008 )

Baseball, I may say at once, does not belong to Ancient History. What matters it whether the game originated in the days of Alfred the Great or simply dates its birth somewhere in the last half century
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Big Game Hunting - (Found June 29, 2008 )

The sportsman, then, must be prepared to work much harder, and to travel very far before he can find and bag big game.
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Bulls And Bull-Fighting - (Found June 29, 2008 )

Although Bull-Fighting is not a sport in which Englishmen commonly engage, it may fairly, as the national pastime of more than one European country, claim a place in an Encyclopaedia of Sport.
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Canoes And Canoeing - (Found June 29, 2008 )

Cruise the world around, and there is not a place or port you can visit without encountering some form or type of canoe. Go back in history beyond the memory or records of man, and you will still find canoes.
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Making A Beginning - (Found June 29, 2008 )

Nor must all of Colonial furniture needs be of mahogany. There is no such narrowing limitation. Mahogany is the most beautiful of all wood for this purpose.
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In Virginia And Delaware - (Found June 29, 2008 )

At least the witty Englishman said nothing in criticism of American furniture; although he probably did not know that there had been many an American cabinet-maker who had done fine and artistic work.
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In Massachusetts And Connecticut - (Found June 29, 2008 )

Connecticut, at the present time, is one of the very best States for the satisfactory search for old furniture. It does not have so much as Pennsylvania; but among the smaller States it has probably the most.
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The Eastern Shore - (Found June 29, 2008 )

THE Eastern Shore! What suggestive power these words have! What visions of hospitable living they conjure up! And there is such delightful arrogance in the name.
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Buying Apparent Wrecks - (Found June 29, 2008 )

IT is not only the pleasure and the fascination of successful pursuit that appeal to him who searches out old furniture. It is the feeling that the prize won is to be established in his house.
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