Poems (Clark)/Going Fishing

by Annie Maria Lawrence Clark

GOING FISHING

The people who live in cloud-land
 Must have had a washing day,
And hung up their clothes all dripping,
For the big drops spattered away;
'Twas much too rainy to go to school,
 And too wet to go out and play.

'Tis just about right," said Billy,
 "To go fishing down in the brook;
I shall have to dig some fishworms,
 And hunt up a line and hook,
And I'll catch some great big bouncers,
 The biggest ever was took."

"Such grammar as that," said grandpa,
 "Tells as plain as words can tell
That the season has been a wet one,
 A downright rainy spell,
When the days just right for fishing
 Count up remarkably well."