"I just wanted to 'heft' it." "Light as a feather," boasted Jimmy.

"Fish all day and it won't tire a man at all.

Done--unjoint it and put it in its case, and not go dragging up everything along the bank like a living stump-puller.

This book says this line will bear twinty pounds pressure, and sometimes it's takin' an hour to tire out a fish, if it's a fighter.

I bet you the Black Bass is a fighter, from what we know of him." "Ye can watch me land him and see what ye think about it," suggested Dannie.
Jimmy held the book with one hand and lightly waved the rod with the other, in a way that would have developed nerves in an Indian.