the sim-ple fish-er-man!

[panfisher]

Once a lit-tle fish-er-man
went out to catch some fish,
he thought he soon would have e-nough
to make a hand-some dish.

he sat up-on the ri-ver's bank
and wait-ed for a bite;
he sat so very pa-ti-ent-ly
from morn-ing un-til night.

he some-times thought of crick-et,
and o-ther cheer-ful play;
but still that lit-tle fish-er-man
sat on, all through the day.

he did feel ve-ry hung-ery,
he ate some bread and cheese;
but he was quite a-fraid to move,
he did not dare to sneeze:

he had been told that fish were quick
of hear-ing, and of sight;
so all the day he sat quite still
un-til the wan-ing light.

and not a fish had he caught yet,
and now "twas very late,
and shall i tell you why it was?
He quite for-got the bait!

found this in a book called "rays of sunshine" from 1895

[Toni]

I thought it was cute. How did you happen to see this in a book from 1895?

[panfisher]

we help out doing estate sales. this was in a childrens book full of stories and poems, etc. i find it interesting reading. interestingly i read in the same book a story poem about the 5 piggy's (toes) the version seems to have been shortened through out the years!