And, if you go for a bathe, they crowd round, and get in your way, and irritate you.

But they are not to be "had" by a bit of worm on the end of a hook, nor anything like it--not they! I am not a good fisherman myself.

I devoted a considerable amount of attention to the subject at one time, and was getting on, as I thought, fairly well; but the old hands told me that I should never be any real good at it, and advised me to give it up.

They said that I was an extremely neat thrower, and that I seemed to have plenty of gumption for the thing, and quite enough constitutional laziness.

But they were sure I should never make anything of a fisherman.