No wonder you were not your rod and line heeding.
We missed it soon after you left, but we guessed,
That p'rhaps of the two you might like it the best."
Oh how Peter longed to give Pat a good poke!
But he knew that the dame saw no harm in a joke,
And he feared lest his fish she might burn.
So smiling he said, "I another one sought,
But here's your one back, which with me I brought,
As I wished it at once to return."
O Fiction! Miss Fiction! 'tis really too bad