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Maxims and Hints on Angling, Chess, Shooting, and Other Matters

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Maxims and Hints on Angling, Chess, Shooting, and Other Matters

Richard Penn

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A self-confessed bungler wrote the century's funniest sporting manual. Richard Penn's maxims and hints cover angling, chess and shooting, with entire chapters on the miseries of fishing: tangled lines, lost fish, ruined boots, all delivered deadpan. Practical tips hide among the jokes like hooks in bait. For anyone who loves a pastime enough to laugh at it.

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13 chapters

  1. 1MAXIMS AND HINTS ON ANGLING, CHESS, SHOOTING, AND OTHER MATTERS; ALSO, MISERIES OF FISHING.
  2. 2CONTENTS
  3. 3MAXIMS AND HINTS FOR AN ANGLER.
  4. 4MAXIMS AND HINTS FOR AN ANGLER: BY A BUNGLER.
  5. 5MISERIES OF FISHING.
  6. 6MISERIES OF FISHING.
  7. 7MORE MISERIES.
  8. 8MAXIMS AND HINTS FOR A CHESS PLAYER.
  9. 9MAXIMS AND HINTS FOR A CHESS PLAYER.
  10. 10MAXIMS AND HINTS ON SHOOTING AND OTHER MATTERS.
  11. 11MAXIMS AND HINTS ON SHOOTING, c. c.
  12. 12FOOTNOTES:
  13. 13Transcriber's Notes:
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