22 LONDON ANGLER'S BOOK, 



fact, many of the best anglers of this day made their 

 debut as above, and under similar circumstances. 



These fish are an excellent bait for Pike or Perch, 

 either alive or dead. 



THE BLEAK. 



SONG. BILLY BLEAK.* 

 (TUNE.) " The King of the Cannibal Islands" 



l. 



A tender parent had a lad, 



She fear'd somehow his ways were bad, 



And she an inclination had, 



That he should he an angler. 



Near Lea Bridge, twenty years ago, 



One night while walking with her beau 



She made a slip and you must know, 



Bill's father was an angler. 



Winches, reels, and lines and hooks. 

 Trolling rods and sniggling crooks, 

 Gut and float and tackle hooks, 

 For Billy Bleak the angler. 



* This and the Leatherhead song lose all their point by the names bein; 

 Hiiaroidably omitte;!. 



