THE FISHERM MAN.
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@ THE FISHERMAN.
There lived an honest Fisherman,
n ! knew him passing well, e
Who dwelt hard by little pond,


Within little dell


A grave and quiet man was he,


Who lov'd his hook and rod,
So euen ran his line of life, .....
n. His neighbors' thought il odd
For science and for books, he said,


He never had wish; l1a." .."
No school to him was worth fig,


Except school of Fish. i. II,
This single-minded Fisherman,


A double calling had
To 'tend his focks in Winter time,


In Summer-fish for shad (
In short, this honest Fisherman,


All other tolls forsook; eu
And though no vagrant man was he,


He lived by hook and crook.
All day that Fisherman would sit, g...
Upon an ancient log; .. s..,... .a
And gaze into the water-hkea H u g4
Some sedentary Frog. aes
A cunning Fisherman was he, e
His angles always right; "
And when he SCRATCHED b;s ocaJ ,,alI ...'
You'd know he had bite. ...
To charm the fish he never spoke,


Although his voice was fine;
tie found the most convenient way,
ta Was just to drop line
And many gudgeon of the pond, i
II made to speak to-day,
Would own with grief, this angler had
A mighty taking way. NJ n 4.
One day, while fishing on the log,


He monrned his want of luck
When suddenly he felt bite,
And jerking, caught---a duck.
Alas I! that day the Fisherman,


Had taken too much grog;
And being but landsman, too,


He could not keep the log.
In vain he strove, with all his might,
And tried to gain the shore;
Down, down he went, to feed the fish
He had often fed before!


MORAL.
The moral of this mournful tale,


To all is plain and clear;
A single drop too much of RUM,


May make acatery bier.
And he who will not sign the Pledge,
And keep the promise fast,
May be, in spite Of fate, stiff


Cold-water-man at last !!