Author: Joseph Morris

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-16

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9781330109175

Excerpt from Songs for Fishermen The love for fishing is universal. The small boy at school who pretends to be studying and who really is proving the marvel that the letters in preface can represent the words "Peter Rogers Eats Fish, Alligators Catch Eels," soon forgets his book altogether. He becomes thrall to his imagination; his fancy transports him to a brookside where he tempts minnows and achieves happiness with a bent pin and a can of worms. His teacher, austere in appearance, may at heart be subject to the same allurement; a popular exponent of the cause of fishing to-day is the college professor, the literary man, the diplomat, Henry Van Dyke. The great actor, in his turn, loves to quit the world of make-believe for the realities of solitude and the angle; witness Joseph Jefferson. The statesman finds similar relief from the cares of state; witness Grover Cleveland and Viscount Grey. Butcher, baker, and candlestick maker, clerk, clergyman, and capitalist - if you would find what, beneath the hard semblances of them, they verily are, utter the cabalistic words: "Let's go fishing." As with fishing, so with fishermen; the love for them too is universal. "All the world loves a lover," we are told; and yet we may ask, "Had not the lover best look to his laurels?" Whatever else you may say of him, he is not a comfortable person to have around. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.