The "honest angler," Walton, cried, and maundered night and day,

But Byron puts the matter in a very different way;

He said that Isaac should have hook fixed firmly "in his gullet,"

And oh! that I might be the trout that he suggests should pull it.


Brown (enthusiastic angler, who has brought his friend and guest out for a "delightful day's fishing"). "Confound it! I've left them—I say, old chap, got any flies with you?"

Jones (not enthusiastic, and a non-smoker, wearily). "Flies!!!"