...famous ditch at a Canter. B 3 withstanding that some of his wag friends may define Angling to be a stick and a string, with a Worm at one end, and a Fool at the other, and that he may find Diachylon an expensive article on having rode a mile or two extraordinary. I knew...

...angling. Being asked by a little girl what a fish-rod was, he replied, " It means, my dear, a long stick with a worm at one end, and a fool at the other." A new way of paying a Debt. — A prisoner in the Fleet Prison, London, lately sent to his creditor...

...visitors, and to make them comfortable and happy whilst there. Notwithstanding Swifts' remark of a 'stick and a string, with a worm at one end, and a fool at the other.' Lord Byron has likewise anathematized angling as 'a solitary vice;' but we may say of Mr. Lodge, that...

...hours,—we have been tempted to consider the definition of one of their number given by Swift, a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other, though somewhat severe, but half a libel. In the case before us the diversion had, however, its incidental...

...of elegant sensibility and friendship, honourable to them both. A wit defined angling to be a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other ; and if, in our notice of this amusing volume, we may seem to have approached the opposite extreme,...

...Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling, or float-fishing, I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end, and a, fool at the other." If, however, the poor angler should feel sore at the wit, he might, in his turn (if scavenger enough...

...define In sportive derision, each ANGLING brother, As " a stick and a string (id estt rod and line) With a worm at one end and a. fool at the other;" * Dean Swift. Yet, believe me, no fool is the man who in quiet Can sit down contented amid the world's...

...regenerated, and disenthralled.' This includes more than the definition of angling — ' a rod and line, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other;' for here is a fool at each end. But it would be an endless task to describe the Hindoo superstitions,...

...regenerated, and disenthralled.' This includes more than the definition of angling — ' a rod and line, with a worm at one end and a fool at the •other;' for here is a fool at each end. But it would be an endless task to describe the Hindoo superstitions,...

...a noble diversion, although that old cynic, Johnson, has defined the fishing-rod to be " a long rod with a worm at one end and a fool at the other." There is no sport which more completely illustrates the grand law of nature than this ; we find the...