May 18.
A dirty ragamuffin on the river's bank held up a tin can to me with the softly persuasive words,—
"'Ere, Mister, BAIT."
"What are you going to do with it?"
"Fish."
"What for?"
"Salmon."
We have all tried to catch salmon with a bent pin. No matter though if no salmon be caught. Richard Jefferies said, "If there be no immortality still we shall have had the glory of that thought."
May 19.
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