WOODLAND PATHS 



He should have seen a Yankee catch 

 eels with a pole and line with a big wad 

 of worms tied on the end of the line and 

 no hook at all, for such is a " bob," as we 

 know it in Norfolk County. The making 

 of a bob is not a pleasant affair for the 

 angleworms, which seem born for de- 

 struction, so many are the creatures that 

 prey on them, and I am glad of Darwin's 

 assurance that, in spite of the fact that 

 they wriggle when rent, they have little 

 fineness of perception and feeling and do 

 not suffer much. 



This crack fisherman who was so stout 

 and who used to get his bait by lantern 

 light at night, to whom my memory runs, 

 always made a bob of shoemaker's thread, 

 because it was fine and of great strength. 

 He had a long wire needle like an uphol- 

 sterer's needle, and with this he would 



deftly string great angleworms from 

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