STILL-BAITING FOR PICKEREL, 
tree of ancient renown, and there beside you place your books. 
Then bait your hook, and east it off among the lily-pads or 
stumps which margin the pond, and gaze away on vacancy. 
There is naught set down against smoking at such a place 
on such occasions. Let the birds bill and coo in the grove 
behind you, and if your mind is intent on developing a new 
theory, let your bait creep up on a stump near you, to the 
