The Gladstonian minnow is popular here,—
It's a bait I abominate wholly.
And yet—if I fish as I fancy—I feel
I perhaps may go home with no fish in my creel,—
And that would be most melancholy!
I am sure my own patent assortment of flies
Ought to make any fish in the universe rise;
My spoon-bait is terribly killing
In some Irish waters. But here,—well, my hook
Must be hidden with something from Hawarden's old book,