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on hand, or slow in their departure. " Not a 

 nib !" How much more graphic, thought I, than 

 " not a touch." From the garb and appearance 

 of the speaker, I put him down for a pauper 

 from the workhouse hard by ; and a reverence, 

 in the room of a partiality for our favourite 

 pastime, seemed to spring up instantaneously, 

 and fasten upon me, when I looked at the time- 

 worn angler before me, and saw at a glance 

 that, though his patience must have been sorely 

 taxed, with not a fraction of a nibble even to 

 cheer him up, he was well contented still to 

 occupy his grassy seat in hopes of a change for 

 the better, until darkness drove him away. 



THE POOR, OLD ANGLER. 



On a grassy seat, 



Where the two streams meet, 



Clad in a thread -bare coat, 

 There sat an old man, 

 His face, Oh, so wan ! 



Watching a tiny float. 



