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to any one else, and what fools they'd be if 

 they did not pocket it ! 



Now all these things, and many others, 

 Stickings had said, but he must overlook it, 

 for he wanted a companion to go with him, 

 and therefore he should make use of him. 

 But then he was not an angler, and he 

 thought he would not like to go and stand 

 so long by the water-side unless he had 

 something to do ; so he thought he would 

 make an angler of him, and to accomplish 

 that he would lend him Isaac "Walton's book 

 to read. He did so, and showed him his 

 tackle, and dilated on the pleasures and pro- 

 fits to be derived from the sport with all the 

 eloquence he possessed. But he found that 

 Stickings was not so easily enamoured with 

 angling arts and anticipation as he had been, 

 neither had he any money to spend in the 

 purchase of tackle as he had : he obtained 

 his living by the sweat of his brow, a way 

 the most honourable, and every hour of his 

 time was precious; besides which, he had 

 some children to keep, and a wife who was 

 not to be won over to the spending of time 

 and money in sports and holidays so easily 

 as Mrs. Bigings. 



