Knickerbocker was affable.

Alone in the solitudes of nature with one of my own sex, I was tolerably at home, and flattered myself that I appeared to considerable advantage, especially as I really was a skillful angler, and landed two trout to my friend's landing one.

By ten o'clock we each had a lovely string of the speckled beauties, and decided to go home for the day, returning on the morrow.
The path we took out of the woods came into the highway just in front of the Widow Cooper's.

I knew it, but I felt quite cool, and determined to make some excuse to catch another glimpse of my companion's sister.

I had one splendid fish among my treasures, weighing over two pounds, while none of his weighed over a pound.