go-a-fishin

Updated: April 30, 2025

There was never any coat, none that I remember. When he wore a coat he was another kind of a Jonathan, a store-dealing Jonathan, or a church-going Jonathan, or a town-meeting Jonathan, not the "go-a-fishin'," or "bee-huntin'," or "deer-stalkin'" Jonathan whom I knew.

Francis Hopkinson Smith - A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others