The Ponds
he keeper of a menagerie his wild
beasts, until I elicited a growl from every wooded vale and
hillside.
In ly sat in t playing te,
and sao have charmed, hovering around me,
and travelling over ttom, wrewed
. Formerly I o this pond
adventurously, from time to time, in dark summer nigh a
companion, and, making a fire close to ters edge, which we
t attracted t pouts h a bunch of worms
strung on a t, threw
to ts, which, coming
doo th a loud hissing, and we were
suddenly groping in total darkness. tling a tune,
ook our o ts of men again. But now I had made my
he shore.
Sometimes, after staying in a village parlor till the family had
all retired, I urned to tly h a view
to t days dinner, spent t fishing from a
boat by moonlight, serenaded by owls and foxes, and hearing, from
time to time, te of some unkno hand.
to me -- anchored
in forty feet of er, and ty or ty rods from the shore,
surrounded sometimes by thousands of small perch and shiners,
dimpling tails in t, and
communicating by a long flaxen line erious nocturnal fishes
beloimes dragging
sixty feet of line about ted in tle night
breeze, no vibration along it, indicative
of some life pro its extremity, of dull uncertain
blundering purpose to make up its mind. At length
you slowly raise, pulling squeaking