ODE TO A WORM 



The sombre years roll on to ultimate negations 

 And swirl back to the fates from whence they 



came ; 

 But thou through all the changing generations 



Thou wriggling angleworm, remain the same. 

 Delicious grub, upon which hungry fish have bat- 

 tened 



Since cave-men first the bone-barbed spear for- 

 sook, 

 I sing this song for one whose yawning creel has 



fattened, 



Because thou hung suspended from his hook. 



Albert Jay Cook. 



WORMS AS BAIT 



The original bait that has tickled the palate of 

 all kinds of fish since the first open season in the 

 Garden of Eden and caused more of them to grace 

 the frying pan than any other lure, of the thousands 

 in use, is the common old worm. Called by some 

 the angleworm, by others the fishworm, and knighted 

 as the greatest bait ever by the happy, bare-legged, 

 knee-pants angler of the Order of the Long Cane 

 Pole. 



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