"Brook trout" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... of this region is the brook trout, with which the streams and lakes abound. The water is of excessive coldness, the thermometer indicating 44 deg. and 45 deg. in the springs, and 47 deg. or 48 deg. in the smaller streams. The trout are generally small, but in the ...
— A Year in the Fields • John Burroughs
... Lean brook trout, goat's-meat stew, and tinned foods. Some of the guests were dissatisfied people who spoke of leaving; others praised both the food and the wild mountain scenery. Schoolmistress Torsen wanted to leave. She was tall and handsome and wore a red hat on her dark hair; but there were no suitable ...
— Look Back on Happiness • Knut Hamsun
... being well stocked with finny inhabitants, furnished me with fine opportunities to indulge in the exciting sport of angling. My efforts were chiefly confined to the capture of the "mullet," a fish resembling the brook trout in New England in size and habits, although not in appearance. It is taken with the artificial fly or live grasshopper for bait; and to capture it, as much skill, perseverance, and athletic motion is required ...
— Jack in the Forecastle • John Sherburne Sleeper
... admire some very old, very wretched painting. Jonah and the whale were represented in a double-barreled miracle picture. Not only was the whale about to swallow Jonah, but he was only as large as a good-sized brook trout, while Jonah towered away above him like a Goliath. I found myself wondering if the guide had convulsions, and, if he should have one now, and die, how many days would pass before we should eat each other. And would they take me first, because I am youngest and plumpest? Albert would ...
— Mae Madden • Mary Murdoch Mason
... usually a king's breakfast in the days of Midas I really do not know and cannot stop now to investigate. To the best of my belief, however, on this particular morning the breakfast consisted of hot cakes, some nice little brook trout, roasted potatoes, fresh boiled eggs, and coffee for King Midas himself, and a bowl of bread and milk for his daughter Marygold. At all events, this is a breakfast fit to set before a king, ...
— Journeys Through Bookland V2 • Charles H. Sylvester |
