120 AN ANGLER AT LARGE 



future waggonette shall have read this little plaint, 

 and the general merriment shall, by his, be les- 

 sened, the general ignorance by him be illuminated. 

 And so for, fair play to the cockney, he is 

 receptive of ideas the good seed shall bear fruit, 

 and a day may come when a bean-feast descended 

 from these honest citizens shall see in my grand- 

 son, as he goes on his way to fish for the trout 

 which I now put down, not a harmless lunatic, 

 fit target for waggery, but a decent angler, 

 suitably clothed, and shall cry with one voice, 

 not " Get your hair cut ! " but " Tight lines ! " 



