If you see your float begin to tremble, and then give a little dip down as if it was going to sink, pull your line out of the water; you will most likely find a fish at the end of it.

When I ask mamma what all this means, she says there is a reason, and I am not old enough to understand it, and she looks unhappy, and she gives me a kiss, and it ends in that way.

You've got a bite; no you haven't; it's only a nibble; fish are so sly.

And grandmamma is worse still.

Sometimes she tells me I'm a spoiled child; and sometimes she says well-behaved little girls don't ask questions.