When persons fish, they always keep perfectly quiet.

You never heard me talking while I was fishing.

I fish a good deal when I am at home," said he, turning to us, "and I always remain perfectly quiet." Menendez laughed a little at this, and said that he didn't believe the fish out there in the surf would mind a little quiet chat; but the gentleman said that he had always found it best to be just as still as possible.

The girl now shut her mouth tight, and held herself more ready, if possible, than ever, and I believe that if she had got a bite she would have jerked the fish's head off.

We all stood around her, and her father watched her as earnestly as if she was about to graduate at a normal school.
We stood and waited and waited, and she didn't move, and neither did the line.