. Whims and oddities : in prose and verse. sented no extraordinary novelties there Hope sits, day after day, speculating on traditionary gud-geons. I think she hath taken the Fisheries. I now know the reasonswhy our forefathers were denominated East and West Angles. Yet isthere no Jack of spawn, for 1 wash my hands in fishets that comethrough the pump, every morning, thick as motelings—little thingsthat perish untimely, and never taste the brook. From a Letter of C. Lamb. [Piscator is fishing,—near the Sir Hugh Middletons Head, withouteither basket or cann. Viator cometh up to him,
. Whims and oddities : in prose and verse. sented no extraordinary novelties there Hope sits, day after day, speculating on traditionary gud-geons. I think she hath taken the Fisheries. I now know the reasonswhy our forefathers were denominated East and West Angles. Yet isthere no Jack of spawn, for 1 wash my hands in fishets that comethrough the pump, every morning, thick as motelings—little thingsthat perish untimely, and never taste the brook. From a Letter of C. Lamb. [Piscator is fishing,—near the Sir Hugh Middletons Head, withouteither basket or cann. Viator cometh up to him, with an angling-rodand a bottle.] Via. Good morrow, Master Piscator. Is there any sportafloat ? Pis. I have not been here time enough to answer for is barely two hours agone since I put in. Via. The fishes are shyer in this stream than in anywater that I know. Pis. I have fished here a whole Whitsuntide throughwithout a nibble. But then the weather was not so ex-cellent as to-day. This nice shower will set the gudgeonsall MY BANKS THEY ARE FURNISHED. WALTON REDIVIVUS. 113 Via. I am impatient to begin. Pis. Do you fish with gut ? Via. No—I bait with gentles. Pis. It is a good taking bait: though my question re-ferred to the nature of your line. Let me see your this is no line, but a ships cable. It is a is nothing in this water but you may pull out witha single hair. Via. What are there no dace, nor perch ? — Pis. I doubt not but there have been such fish in formerages. But now-a-days there is nothing of that size. Theyare gone extinct, like the mammoths. Via. There was always such a fishing at em. Wherethere was one Angler in former times, there is now a hun-dred. Pis. A murrain onem !—A New-River fish now-a-days,cannot take his common swimming exercise without hitch-ing on a hook. Via. It is the natural course of things, for mans popu-lousness to terminate other breeds. As the proverb says, The more Scotchmen the fewer herring
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