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Sunday 20 November 2005

Fishing on the banks of the Thames: Monday's food quotation

The neighbourhood of Streatley and Goring is a great fishing centre. The river abounds in pike, roach, dace, gudgeon, and eels, just here; and you can sit and fish for them all day. Some people do. They never catch them.

1889 Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat chapter 17

Contributed by Andrew Dalby. Posted at 19:14
Categories: Quotations