And then we had fish for breakfast too--siscoes--mebby that put me in
mind on it some.

But anyway, I wuz always interested in the subject of fishin', and the
hull world is. For what wuz the Postles? Fishers. For what did the Great
Master name His beloved? Fishers of men.

Why, the Bible is full of fishin' and fisherman, clear back to Jonah;
and how took up he wuz with a fish, and how full the fish wuz of him!

Fishin' wuz the first industry in the New World.

When our Forefathers landed on Plymouth Rock they found the harbor
shaped some like a fish-hook, and then consequently they went to
fishin'.

Who got Washington and his army over the Delaware River that bitter cold
night in 1777, when the fate of our country wuz a-hangin' over that sea
of broken ice--ruin on this side, and possible success on the other, but
the impassable gulf of bitter cold water and the crashing masses of ice
between--who got 'em acrost? Fisherman.

Our country has always been noted in its interest in fishin'. Why, at
the Internatial Exhibition at Berlin in 1880, America won the first
prize given by the Emperor for its display.

And I knew when it done so well on a foreign shore, it wuzn't goin' to
make any failure of itself here under its own line, and fish tree, so to
speak.