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    Fishin' Jimmy
    Fishin' Jimmy
    Fishin' Jimmy
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    Fishin' Jimmy

    By Annie Trumbull Slosson

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateNov 26, 2013
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      Fishin' Jimmy - Annie Trumbull Slosson

      The Project Gutenberg EBook of Fishin' Jimmy, by Annie Trumbull Slosson

      This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

      Title: Fishin' Jimmy

      Author: Annie Trumbull Slosson

      Release Date: May 23, 2004 [EBook #12417]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK FISHIN' JIMMY ***

      Produced by Al Haines

      FISHIN' JIMMY

      BY

      ANNIE TRUMBULL SLOSSON

      AUTHOR'S EDITION

      1889

      FISHIN' JIMMY

      It was on the margin of Pond Brook, just back of Uncle Eben's, that

      I first saw Fishin' Jimmy. It was early June, and we were again at

      Franconia, that peaceful little village among the northern hills.

      The boys, as usual, were tempting the trout with false fly or real worm, and I was roaming along the bank, seeking spring flowers, and hunting early butterflies and moths. Suddenly there was a little plash in the water at the spot where Ralph was fishing, the slender tip of his rod bent, I heard a voice cry out, Strike him, sonny, strike him! and an old man came quickly but noiselessly through the bushes, just as Ralph's line flew up into space, with, alas! no shining, spotted trout upon the hook. The new comer was a spare, wiry man of middle height, with a slight stoop in his shoulders, a thin brown face, and scanty gray hair. He carried a fishing-rod, and had some small trout strung on a forked stick in one hand. A simple, homely figure, yet he stands out in memory just as I saw him then, no more to be forgotten than the granite hills, the rushing streams, the cascades of that north country I love so well.

      We fell into talk at once, Ralph and Waldo rushing eagerly into questions about the fish, the bait, the best spots in the stream, advancing their own small theories, and asking advice from their new friend. For friend he seemed even in that first hour, as he began simply, but so wisely, to teach my boys the art he loved. They are older now, and are no mean anglers, I believe; but they look back gratefully to those brookside lessons, and acknowledge gladly their obligations to Fishin' Jimmy. But it is not of these practical teachings I would now speak; rather of the lessons of simple faith, of unwearied patience, of self-denial and cheerful endurance, which the old man himself seemed to have learned, strangely enough, from the very sport so often called cruel and murderous. Incomprehensible as it may seem, to his simple intellect the fisherman's art was a whole system of morality, a guide for every-day life, an education, a gospel. It was all any poor mortal man, woman, or child, needed in this world to make him or her happy, useful,

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