THE GENTLE CRAFT

(By Our Own Trout)

How gentle is the fisherman who sits beside the brook,

And firmly puts the wriggling worm upon the pointed hook

How pleasant for the hapless trout to find, from some strange cause,

The fly conceals a something that makes havoc with its jaws!

Dame Juliana Berners wrote a book, in which she said

The blessing of St. Peter rests upon the angler's head;