INDEX BY AUTHORS O'CONNELL, DANIEL. My Favorite Book, 62. OSBORNE, MAITLAND LEROY. Piscator, Don't Brag! 303. PARKER, SAM. A Fisher Once Was I, 200. PECK, P. S. Fishin' Time, 268. PHILLIPS, HENRY. Good Fishing, 119. 321 POPE, ALEXANDER. Born at London, 1688; died at Twickenham, 1744. PRAED, WINTHROP MACKWORTH. Born at London, 1802; died there, 1839. RICE, GRANTLAND. Born at Nashville, Tenn., 1880. Attended Vanderbilt ROSE, RAY CLARKE. Keep Fishin', 256; With Rod and Reel, 183. SAGE, DEAN. Salmon, 85. SCOLLARD, CLINTON. Born at Clinton, N. Y., 1860. A well-known modern poet; author of many books of verse. The Angler, 253; The Fisherman, 190. SEARS, GEORGE W. Died at Williamsport, W. Va., 1890; conductor of 1616. Dramatist and poet. SHAW, T. R. Fishin' with an Old Bamboo, 275. SHEA, JOHN CHARLES. I Want to Go Fishing To-Day, 139. SIMMONS, WILLIAM E. One of the best known of modern anglers. Early SMITH, D. G. We've All Seen Him, 199. SMOLLETT, TOBIAS. Born at Dalquhurn, Dumbartonshire, Scotland; died SOMMERVILLÉ, WILLIAM. Born at Edstone, Warwickshire, Eng., 1675; died STANTON, FRANK L. Born at Charleston, S. C., 1857. Identified with the 322 STODDART, THOMAS TOD. Born in Edinburgh, 1810; died 1880. An ex- ample of a man who devoted his entire life to angling. Once upon being asked STREET, ALFRED BILLINGS. Born at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., 1811; died 1881. Became poet laureate, TROWBRIDGE, JOHN TOWNSEND. Born at Ogden, N. Y., 1827; died 1916. VAN de WATER, FREDERIC F. Born at Pompton Lakes, N. J., 1890. Attended Born at Germantown, Pa., 1852. Preacher, essayist, WADE, BLANCHE ELIZABETH. Frequent contributor of poetry to present- WALTON, IZAAK. Born at St. Mary, Stafford, 1593; died at Winchester, 1683. INDEX BY AUTHORS 323 before Cromwell became Lord Protector of the Commonwealth, and its author WARD, C. N. Angling Reveries, 233. WARING, CARL. The Trout Brook, 107. WESTWOOD, THOMAS. Born in England, 1816; died at Brussels, 1888. Charles WHITTIER, JOHN GREENLEAF. Born at Haverhill, Mass., 1807; died at WILCOX, ELLA WHEELER. Born at Johnston Centre, Wis., 1855; died WILLIS, ELSIE D. Castin', 174. WOLCOT, JOHN. Born near Kingsbridge, Devonshire, Eng., 1738; died at Lon- WORDSWORTH, WILLIAM. Born at Cockermouth, Cumberland, Eng., 1770; STREAMS MENTIONED IN THE POEMS AIL. A minor river of Scotland. ALPHEUS. Principal river of the Peloponnesus, Greece, arising in Arcadia and emptying into the Ionian Sea. Same as the modern Rufia. Some parts of its course are underground. AVON. Avon is a very common designation for rivers in Great Britain, there being four rivers in England and three in Scotland by that name. BRANDYWINE. A creek on the eastern edge of Greenfield, Indiana. BRULE. A short river in northeastern Minnesota, flowing into Lake Superior. COQUET. A river in Northumberland, England, flowing into the North Sea. ETTRICK. A river of Scotland, 32 miles long, joining the Tweed near Selkirk. EUROTAS. Chief river in Laconia, Greece, arising in Mount Boreum and flowing into the Laconian Gulf. Same as modern Iri or Iris. It is about 45 miles long. GALA. A river of Scotland, a tributary of the Tweed. KALE. A small river in Roxburghshire, Scotland, flowing into the Teviot. KANKAKEE. A river in northwestern Indiana and eastern Illinois, uniting with the Des Plaines to form the Illinois River. KEN. A river of Scotland, connected with the Dee. LEA (LEE). A river in England, uniting with the Thames near the Isle of Dogs, London. LEVEN. A river in Fife, Scotland, issuing from the southeast of Loch Leven and flowing eastward 14 miles into the Firth of Forth at the town of Leven. LOIRE. The largest river of France, over 600 miles long, flowing into the Bay of Biscay. LYNE. A river in Peeblesshire, Scotland, a tributary of the Tweed. MANOR. A small river in Peeblesshire, Scotland. ST. JOHN. A river in Maine and Canada, emptying into the Bay of Fundy. ST. LAWRENCE. One of the principal rivers of North America, the outlet of the Great Lakes. SEVERN. A river in England, about 200 miles long, arising in Wales and emptying into the Bristol Channel. SHAWFORD BROOK. A small stream in Straffordshire. TALLA. A minor stream in Scotland. TEVIOT. A river in Scotland, about 40 miles long, a tributary of the Tweed. THAMES. The largest river in Great Britain, about 228 miles long, arising near Cirencester and emptying into the North Sea. TRENT. A river in England, about 170 miles long, arising in Straffordshire and uniting with the Ouse to form the Humber. TWEED. River in Scotland and on the boundary between Scotland and England, 97 miles long, entering the North Sea at Berwick. WANSBECK. River of Northumberland, England, emptying into the North Sea at Camboise. WEAR. River in Durham, England, flowing into the North Sea at Sunderland. 324 NOTES (Numbers in parentheses refer to lines of the poems) Page 26-AT BROAD RIPPLE. At the time this poem was written Broad Ripple was a very small town on the banks of the White River north of Indianapolis. Page 31-THE ANGLER. (13) Aurora, goddess of the dawn. (34) gentles, maggots or larvæ of the flesh-fly, used as bait. (40) fray, an archaic word meaning frighten. Page 33-THE FISHERMAN'S FEAST. (37) Chronos, Time. Page 60-MY BEST KENTUCKY REEL. Grover Cleveland and Joseph Jefferson, the famous actor, were for years angling companions. Page 66-TO AN OLD FRIEND. (12) rathe, pertaining to the early part of the year or season. Page 68-THE ANGLER'S BALLAD. The last four stanzas of this poem refer to definite political conditions. Cotton, as a royalist and conservative, feared a new civil war in England. Page 74-COROMANDEL FISHERS. The Coromandel Coast is off the eastern side of the Indian Peninsula. Page 79-A FISHERMAN S PETITION. (1) Ananias was a Jewish Christian who was struck dead for fraud and lying. Page 83-TO THE IMMORTAL MEMORY OF THE HALIBUT ON WHICH I DINED THIS DAY. (15) Batavia, Holland. (16) Caledonia, Scotland. (17) Hibernia, Ireland. Page 89-THE ANGLER'S CAROL. (30) stone, a weight, formerly of varying amount, now legally fourteen pounds in Great Britain. (35) "The face," etc., the fisherman's usual drinking toast. Page 91-THE BAIT. This poem is an answer and echo to Marlowe's lyric "The Shepherd to His Love." Page 92-THE SALMON FLY. (18) Scotia, Scotland. (48) Cathay's rare worm, the silk-worm of China. (11) famous "line," the equator. (1) Southron, Southerner, Page 101-HAMPSHIRE FLY-FISHING. Page 103-NORTH COUNTRY FLY-FISHING. one living in southern England. Page 109-UP AND DOWN OLD BRANDYWINE. (58) Old Irvin' Hunt and Aunt Jane Hunt lived in a little cottage on the banks of the Brandywine. They were born slaves and the first negroes to come to Greenfield. This old negro was such a good fisherman that he was reputed to catch fish "where there weren't any.' Page 113-THE FIRST FISHERMAN. (8) pre-Pelasgian, before the Pelasgians, who are mentioned by classical writers as the primitive dwellers in Greece and the eastern islands of the Mediterranean. (12) mesozoic, one of the grand divisions of geological history between the paleozoic and the cenozoic, characterized by the spread of reptiles. (17) Ananias, see note for page 79. Page 119-THE WAYS OF THE FISHERMAN. (2) engines, devices, inventions. Page 121-THE INVITATION. Tom Hughes, the author of "Tom Brown's School-Days" and "Tom Brown at Oxford." (7) Snowdon, a mountain in Carnarvonshire, Wales, the highest mountain in England or Wales, and noted for its grand view. (15) Siabod, a mountain in Wales. Page 124-THE WICKED FISHERMAN. To a Fellow-Angler, G. M. M. These verses were written in the woods near Ashland, Wisconsin, on a Sunday morning when Mr. Browne was laid up with a broken ankle, and were addressed to George M. Millard, his fishing companion. (2) Funday, an inlet, about 140 miles long and from 30 to 50 miles wide, on the Atlantic coast between New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, the tides of which reach the enormous height of from 60 to 70 feet. (6) Dundee, an old tune of the Scottish Psalter. (10) |