Instructions to Young Sportsmen: In All that Relates to Guns and Shooting |
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Page 527 - Provided that nothing herein-before contained shall extend to any person angling between the beginning of the last hour before sunrise and the expiration of the first hour after sunset ; but whosoever shall by angling between the beginning of the last hour before sunrise...