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But it is as an angler that I like best to think of John 

 Younger. And the picture which dwells most pleasantly 

 in my mind is that of the old shoemaker on his bench, 

 with the crowd of kindly gossips gathered round his 

 workshop of an evening : some, neighbours who had 

 known him from their childhood ; some, strangers from 

 afar brought thither by his reputation as a philosopher 

 and a fisherman, all come to listen to the Nestor of 

 Tweedside as he talks wisely of the secrets of the gentle 

 craft he knew and loved so well a band of worshipful 

 courtiers waiting 



to hear a gray-haired king 

 Unravel all his many-coloured lore. 



