The mayor of Wind-gap Author:John Banim Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: "To get you round a stump, and make geome- thries of you?" asked Anny. " Now, that's something more abstruse than geometry itself, to poor me." "He means, Ann... more »y," said George Blundell, "that the fish, by his doublings and twinings, had nearly fastened his line to the stump of a tree; which event, had it really occurred, must have caused the line to snap, and the trout to escape." " I wish from my heart it had so happened," said Anny. "He calls it by a ridiculous kind of name, a sieve-maker, I think—I should suppose that means a large trout?" " And a large trout it is, Anny. But I will explain our friend's terms to you, for I have learned the vocabulary of the neighbouring anglers. Onca upon a time, a person who followed the trade of a sieve-maker, was remarkably fortunate in taking the largest fish on the river, and, since his immortal day, his professional name is given to all trouta of an unusual size." "You tould me, purtylady,"resumed Maurteen Maher, "that I have a cruel way of divarting my- eelffr now, it's mighty plain to know that a good throut, with a big body and a little head, a broad back, and spots on his side as wide as half-crown pieces, makes very good food for poor Christians; and besides, little and big as they all are together, they were all bred and born and brought up in this river for people to ate; and, moreover, agin, all living things make out their life by ating one another, barring they'd be sheep or cows, or baste of that sort; and u.e ate them that ate only the grass; and, as harmless as you take that fish to be, there's more than two good hundred of flies in his craw this moment, and he swallowed them down alive as they sailed on the wather; and, hearken to me; he was like many of this world's rogues, enough wouldn't satisfy him, but he must...« less