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    Fishing with a Worm
    Fishing with a Worm
    Fishing with a Worm
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    Fishing with a Worm

    By Bliss Perry

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013

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      Fishing with a Worm - Bliss Perry

      The Project Gutenberg eBook, Fishing with a Worm, by Bliss Perry

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      Title: Fishing with a Worm

      Author: Bliss Perry

      Release Date: July 27, 2005 [eBook #16369]

      Language: English

      Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

      ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FISHING WITH A WORM***

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      FISHING WITH A WORM

      FISHING

      WITH A WORM

      BY

      BLISS PERRY

      BOSTON AND NEW YORK

      HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY

      MDCCCCXVI

      FISHING WITH A WORM

      The last fish I caught was with a worm.—IZAAK WALTON.

      A defective logic is the born fisherman's portion. He is a pattern of inconsistency. He does the things which he ought not to do, and he leaves undone the things which other people think he ought to do. He observes the wind when he should be sowing, and he regards the clouds, with temptation tugging familiarly at his heartstrings, when he might be grasping the useful sickle. It is a wonder that there is so much health in him. A sorrowing political economist remarked to me in early boyhood, as a jolly red-bearded neighbor, followed by an abnormally fat dog, sauntered past us for his nooning: That man is the best carpenter in town, but he will leave the most important job whenever he wants to go fishing. I stared at the sinful carpenter, who swung along leisurely in the May sunshine, keeping just ahead of his dog. To leave one's job in order to go fishing! How illogical!

      Years bring the reconciling mind. The world grows big enough to include within its scheme both the instructive political economist and the truant mechanic. But that trick of truly logical behavior seems harder to the man than to the child. For example, I climbed up to my den under the eaves last night—a sour, black sea-fog lying all about, and the December sleet crackling against the window-panes—in order to varnish a certain fly-rod. Now rods ought to be

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