ONE DAY'S FISHING.
One morning, when-pnngw."' in her teens— A muni to a poet's wishing, All tinted in delicate pinks and pi pens ; Miss Bessir and I went fishing- - 1 m ni\ tough -md ea-jy clothe-, _ With inj face at tin- -unshine'-. mercn, She with hei hat tij>]ie<l down to her who, And hei noist; tipped — vice \of».i. I with my rod, my leel .md my hooks, And a h.unpei tor lnnchcon recedes; .She with hei bait of hci ciiiiiely look-*, And the «oino of her golden trc-es. Ho we «.at down on the sunny dike, Wheie the white pond lilies teeter, And I went fiislung like quaint old Ike, And she like Simon Peter. All the noon I l.vv in the light of her eyes, And dieamily watched ,uid waited; 15nt the hsh weie ennninjf, and would nut rise, And the baitei alone wasbaited. And when the time for depaitme came, The bag was as flat as a flounder, And lk'-sip had neatly hooked her game, A Inindied and-eiglity ]ioundei. — Boston (4.uettc.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2056, 10 September 1885, Page 4
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173ONE DAY'S FISHING. Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2056, 10 September 1885, Page 4
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