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THE MICROSCOPIC TROUT

AND

THE MACHIAVELIAN FISHERMAN

A fisher was casting his flies in a brook,  According to laws of such sciences, With a patented reel and a patented hook  And a number of other appliances; And the thirty-fifth cast, which he vowed was the last  (It was figured as close as a decimal), Brought suddenly out of the water a trout  Of measurements infinitesimal.
This fish had a way that would win him a place  In the best and most polished society, And he looked at the fisherman full in the face  With a visible air of anxiety:

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