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"I'd go up the river," said Dr. O'Donoghue, "and I'd take my rod and landing-net and the salmon with me, and I'd sit down on the bank and wait." "Simpkins," said Doyle, "does be walking up along the river every evening, so the doctor wouldn't be there for very long before he'd be caught." "I see," said Meldon.

I myself was brought up after that manner; and they tell me that in all my first age I never felt the rod but twice, and then very slightly. I have never observed other effects of whipping than to render boys more cowardly, or more wilfully obstinate. Do we desire to be beloved of our children?

Get out of this, or I'll chuck you." "But we must see her," and Rod stepped boldly forward. "It's very important." "Get out of this, I say," and the man caught him roughly by the shoulders, wheeled him around, and was about to send him headlong out upon the stage, when a stern voice arrested him. "What's all this about, Ben?"

One hammer had an iron rod running down through the handle with a nut screwed on at the end. Another was wholly composed of iron, the head and handle being all of one piece. There were various other devices, some of which were exceedingly clumsy and awkward. At last, he hit upon an improvement which led to his being able to put a hammer upon a handle in such a way that it would stay there.

If Christ is to make me what I am to be, I must tarry in fellowship with God. If God is to let his love enter in and shine and burn through my heart, I must take time to be with Him. The smith puts his rod of iron into the fire. If he leaves it there but a short time it does not become red hot.

I was to "settle down," and it is only slaves who rebel. The next day, humble and chastened in spirit, I kissed the rod, and went into the city to search for a situation. I determined to start at Forty-second Street, and work my way down town until I found a place that looked as though it could afford a foreign correspondent.

The lady, hatless and astounded, choked with anger; her husband was outraged and demanded the price of the hat, and Patissot paid about three times its value. Then the family departed in a very dignified manner. Patissot took another rod, and, until nightfall, he gave baths to sand worms. His neighbor was sleeping peacefully on the grass. Toward seven in the evening he awoke.

What was I frightened of? how could I miss such an opportunity?... I might have seen Caesar himself and I was senseless with terror, I whimpered and turned away, like a child at the sight of the rod. Razin, now that's another matter. As a nobleman and landowner ... though, indeed, even then what had I really to fear? Coward! coward!... 'But wasn't it all a dream? I asked myself at last.

I suppose that the chill which reverberated through my spine and legs echoed the horror of many generations of my ancestors who had known professors of all kinds, from those who trimmed their hair and dosed them with nostrums to those who sat over them with textbook and rod.

The little rod, firmly gripped in my hand, bends into a bow of beauty, and a hundred feet behind us a splendid silver salmon leaps into the air. "What is it?" cries the Gypsy, "a fish?" It is a fish, indeed, a noble ouananiche, and well hooked.