BOBBING FOR EELS 



is fortunate that the angleworm is 

 born without a voice, else throughout the 

 length and breadth of the land were now 

 resounding a chorus of doleful shrieks, for 

 great is the dismemberment of angle- 

 worms about this time. The same warmth 

 of imminent summer which made the 

 grass jump six inches in length over night, 

 has brought him forth in great numbers, 

 over night also, for the anglew 7 orm is a 

 lover of darkness. 



I know Darwin thought earthworm a 

 more proper designation of him, but it is 

 to be believed that Darwin was not a 

 fisherman. Had he been he would have 

 known that the chief end of worm is to 



become bait. There may be nicer things 

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