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Updated: June 13, 2025
He married a wife whose father gave him a farm, but he failed with this, too, fishing and fiddling when he should have been working, and in two years the farm was sold. Then he went back to store-keeping, and with the same result. The trouble was his love for the fiddle and the fishing-line, which stood very much in the way of business.
"Look ye here, my lad, you are getting better, you know, and that's what makes you so rusty." "Anyone would get rusty, doing nothing day after day. Now then, Bob, I'll stand no more nonsense. You get the fishing-line directly. Do you hear?" "Oh, yes, my lad, I hear. You spoke loud enough." "Then why don't you go and get one?" "'Cause I'm busy making a raft." "That you're not.
You're only fiddling about it like an old woman." "Hor, hor!" laughed the man. "Like an old woman!" "Will you fetch me a long fishing-line?" "No good now, sir; tide's going out." "Never you mind about that. I want a line." Bostock carefully placed the auger against one end of a plank, grunted twice over, and then began to turn the handle. "Precious hard bit o' wood, sir."
They gathered a strange, even valuable, collection of curiosities in various departments of science; nothing escaped Harry in the shape of plant-life, shells, or geological specimens, and the others followed his example in other lines. A great many rare and beautiful curiosities were brought up on the fishing-line.
The involved mass was really not a fishing-line but, in its untangled state, an apparatus for confounding and enraging pedestrians. Stretched across the sidewalk between two tin cans its function was to catch in the feet of passersby, thus pulling the clamorous cans about the ankles of the victim.
Then "Jack Robinson" was turning over the gun and the anchor, after which, with a wink and grin, he drew a little coil of new fishing-line from out of his breast. "We shall be ship-shape now," he cried. "Yes; come into our room," cried the Skipper. "You may come and see too, Dot;" and the next minute, they were in the play and school-room.
The others meanwhile might get some threads out of that piece of spare canvas which we cut off the topgallant sail, and twist it up into a fishing-line." No sooner said than done. The poor fellows were glad of something to employ their minds and fingers upon, and went to work with avidity to carry out the suggestion.
It's quite plain that we can have no more wading after ducks, but the fish won't object to feed in cold weather, so we'll try them again after having had a bit to eat." In pursuance of this plan the two went to the wharf, after having refreshed themselves, and set to work with the fishing-line. Nelly baited the hook, and Roy cut a hole in the ice with his axe.
Here's his spear and his paddles. His blankets are back at the hut. So far as I can see, he took only his fishing-line and his bow and arrows." "Yes, but he may come back again," suggested Jesse. "I hardly think so," reasoned Rob. "At any rate, he'll not come back so long as these people hang around, because he knows they're after him.
Helen had received her instructions, and she soon afterwards returned with the fishing-line, and a fair supply of extra hooks, and odds and ends, which the doctor, as an old angler, had suggested. "These all for me!" cried the boy joyfully. The doctor nodded. "Recollect: no mischief, and don't tumble in."
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