lerns's

Updated: May 1, 2025

But the next morning, as I strolled out to fish the Swiftwater, down below Billy Lerns's spring-house I found a green bank in the shadow of the wood all bespangled with tiny, trembling, twofold stars, double rueanemones, for luck! It was a favourable omen, and that day I came home with a creel full of trout.

Henry Van Dyke - Fisherman's Luck and Some Other Uncertain Things