...famous ditch at a Canter. B 3 withstanding that some of his wag friends may define Angling to be a stick and a string, with a Worm at one end, and a Fool at the other, and that he may find Diachylon an expensive article on having rode a mile or two extraordinary....

...hours,—we have been tempted to consider the definition of one of their number given by Swift, a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other, though somewhat severe, but half a libel. In the case before us the diversion had, however,...

...visitors, and to make them comfortable and happy whilst there. Notwithstanding Swifts' remark of a 'stick and a string, with a worm at one end, and a fool at the other.' Lord Byron has likewise anathematized angling as 'a solitary vice;' but we may say of Mr. Lodge,...

...of elegant sensibility and friendship, honourable to them both. A wit defined angling to be a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other ; and if, in our notice of this amusing volume, we may seem to have approached the opposite extreme,...

...Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling, or float-fishing, I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end, and a, fool at the other." If, however, the poor angler should feel sore at the wit, he might, in his turn (if scavenger...

...angling, as that seurrilous fellow Swift, did: — namely, that it is a pastime performed with a rod and a string — with a worm at one end, and a fool at the other ! — But, softly, good Mr. Cynic ! — and just favor us with five minutes of your valuable...

...his mouth, and a dozen or two in his pocket. A British classic writer defined angling to be " a stick and a string, with a worm at one end, and a fool at the other ;" and might not smoking, with equal propriety, bear a similar definition ? Chewing is, perhaps,...

...of an angler, by "a British classic writer," might be transferred to the other worthy: — "a stick and a string, with a worm at one end, and a fool at the other"! Dr. Ticknor's fifth chapter is on dress. We have nothing to object to the general rules he...

...fishing may be a very pleasant amusement ; but angling or float fishing, I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end, and a, fool at the other." If, however, the poor angler should feel sore at the wit, he might, in his turn (if scavenger...

...drew from the prejudiced and surly Dr. Johnson, the very amiable and agreeable expression,—" A stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other." The truth is, that learned lexicographer was so short-sighted he could not see a float! and,...