human
A Nod is as good as a 'Wink,
gpt
What bait are yer usin', Billie?
human
Cheese.
gpt
What are yer tryin' ter catch--mice?
human
A SALMON TAKING A FLY
gpt
Enjoying it, old chap?
human
Oh, please, sir, do let baby see you catch a fish!
gpt
NOT PROVEN. --_Presbyterian Minister._
human
Don't you know it's wicked to catch fish on the Sawbath?!
gpt
Wha's catchin' fesh?!
human
Now, don't you boys know that nobody can catch fish in this stream except with my--er--a--special permit?
gpt
Get away! Why, me and this 'ere kid's catched scores of 'em wi' a worrum!
human
The man who wrote that sign couldn't have been using the right bait!
gpt
Well? Have you caught any fish, Billy?
human
Well, I _really_ caught _two_! But they were quite young, poor little things, and so they _didn't know how to hold on_!
gpt
Hush! Keep _back_! Keep _back_! I had a beautiful rise just then; shall get another directly.
human
Now then, you idiot, bring me the net, can't you, or he'll be off in a second!
gpt
Deuced odd, Donald, I can't get a fish over seven pounds, when they say Major Grant above us killed half a dozen last week that turned twenty pounds apiece!
human
Aweel, sir, it's no that muckle odds i'th' sawmon,--but thae fowk up the watter is bigger leears than we are doon here!
gpt
ONE GOOD TURN, ETC.--_City Man_ (_to one of his clerks he finds fishing in his ornamental water_).
human
Look here, Smithers, I've no objection to giving you a day now and then 'to attend your aunt's funeral'--but I think you might send some of the fish up to the house!
gpt
Eh, man, that wass a splendid cod! If we had gotten that cod, noo, we micht ha' been ha'ein' a dram.
human
Indeed, and ye would, Angus.
gpt
Mebbe, Maister Smuth, if we wad have had a dram afore ye wass lettin' doon yer line, we micht have grappit that muckle fush!
human
Hullo, old chappie! Fallen in?
gpt
You don't suppose this is a perspiration, do you?
human
There! --(_Throwing his fly-book into the stream, with a malediction_)--
gpt
Take your choice!
human
What sport? 'Guess I've been foolin' around all day with a twenty-five-dollar pole, slinging fourteen-cent baits at the end of it, and haven't caught a darned fish!
gpt
THERE'S MANY A SLIP,