Takings, or, The life of a collegian : a poem . at the other commonly a fool. This has been said, and if a bouncer—why. The reader has it quite as cheap as I. F 3 68 TAKINGS. XV. For my part, I should say the man is wise Who can so easily obtain delight,Impaling worms, and torturing grubs and flies ; If he should follow it from morn till night,It is so entertaining ! lively ! gentle !And, more than all, so very sentimental! XVI. But yet so far these gentry need not roam; The sport they so exceedingly admireThey might enjoy, and use their lines at home, In pail of water placed before the
Takings, or, The life of a collegian : a poem . at the other commonly a fool. This has been said, and if a bouncer—why. The reader has it quite as cheap as I. F 3 68 TAKINGS. XV. For my part, I should say the man is wise Who can so easily obtain delight,Impaling worms, and torturing grubs and flies ; If he should follow it from morn till night,It is so entertaining ! lively ! gentle !And, more than all, so very sentimental! XVI. But yet so far these gentry need not roam; The sport they so exceedingly admireThey might enjoy, and use their lines at home, In pail of water placed before the mode of fishing, though some drivellers scoff it,With equal pleasure, promises like profit. XVII. Scarcely a single bite had cheerd the dunce,A beggar luckier, by the self-same brook, Twas evident, took something more than once,And that without or rod, or line, or hook: What fish he sought, to pickle, boil or fry, I have not leisure now to specify. .BOftlXAT *<) 7Z ; gsift hqirsding grituj*!^ boa ,2m*j^dgia Hii mor^^%ii wollol bluett.
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