The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1861-03-29
Fishing Time Coming.

Fishing Time Coming.
vrban II WAS known that n certain French
King was dead n certain French wag wrote
tn a friend. {" the king died yesterday; the
sun rose this morning" We say this was the
dictum of some French wag, with regard 10
some French king. But we are by no means
certain that either party was Frenchman
80 ,o ,,e know where we saw the anecdote |
To tell the truth, the French are so witty,
and so full of what they call dons motS, that
thew have to father a vast deal of bastard wit |
The necessity of locating ito use an American
pbraze) every thing in these matter of TACT days,
alone induces us to lay this bantling at the
door of some Frenchman. We slope none OF
that gallant nation may be ever made respon-
sible for paintings OF a less equivocal descrip-
ton But we were saying, somebody
somewhere said in a Ietter-or GcTOte II you
will insist on speaking by the card-when
some king OF some country died, on some oc-
| casion what we have stated above, viz
| "The king died yesterday the sun rose TINS
morning" And so we will be bound TO say
| he did, exactly at the same hour he had risen
| one year before The sun is himself Il king, |
| and he lays abed for no man, be he King or
| Kaiser He is punctual monarch, and al |
| ways comes up to time.
Now we do not think it the best taste in the |
| world 10 crack joke at the expense OF mis- |
| fortune Therefore, in all seriousness, we VIII
observe that as the did not refuse to
| shine because Il king of France died, SO also II
! does not break in upon its accustomed hours,
! because the Union has been broken up. On
the contrary. it.seems to have broken out in
| Il fresh place within the last week All the
little birds are upon the wing, all the trees
| f~r and nj +h4
fishermen are arming for the rivers and ponds.
| We wish them all joy, and we wish them all
luck. The time was when We should have
been with them. But it is all in the head now.
We talk about 1shing-we fancy il glorious
sport-we wish for the fishing season TO come
but il is no go. We do not enjoy it as We
used to- The froth is gone from the cham
payne, and the body is insipid 1t wss youth,
freshness, high spirits, that made us enjoy il
in the olden time. :" Ny mind to me king
dom is" says old BYRD, and so it is to every
man. Happiness comes from within. The
| imaginat ton has more TO do with ait than
people are willing to admit; and, alas old
men have no maginatio and, SO far as this
world is concerned, no future.
"There's not e JOY the world can give,
Like that it takes away
So wrote a young Lord, twenty-si1 years
old, with half the world at his feet, and the
rest praying to be CONG uered a boon. We
wonder what he would have said if he had
lived TO fifty, working all the time for the salt
in his bread, neN er having dollar he could
call his own, scratching out 4 scant livelihood
with pen, with not the slightest hope of
anything better this side of the grave. He
would have found out the world had some
Joys it could give and wouldn't, to dead GER
Va hay bpor hat a..
: world owed them livelihood. We suppose
= it owes us one, too If it does, it is con-
founded bad paymaster-that is all we can
say. 1t has swindled us, beyond peradven-
ture. We wish it could be taught honesty -
&c We wish it could be made to pay its debts, il
= il really does owe rs anything. We should
II suspect, the joys which the above poet speaks
. of as being taken away by the world mean
20 the aforesaid living. But the world never
l. gave us that living, and therefore cannot taxi
l. away what we never had. Upon the whole
the conduct OF the world about that living i
owes us conyinces us that it is a swindler.
When we go about the bright waters, thi
- beautiful sunny wea ther We almost wish w
We're a fisherman by trade. 1t is such lazy
"a don tea re for anybody kind of life. Tn
lazzaroni of Naples, we believe, are all fisher
. men. At least the opera of Massaniello i'm
us with tDdt lQtd, ana we QCn I know
'e that we are bound to quote higher authority
. The great Duke of Marlborough derived al
~ his knowledge of English history from SHAKs
pEARE's plays. We are certainly not require
i to be better informed than the Duke of Mari
~ borough. We never saw Naples, and neye
expect to see it. But we suspect these lazzo
roni must be happy fellows. They have nc
thing to do, and they DO it. We call fishin
III next 10 nothing. ANY man can make 4 fisher
II man. provided his name be not PETER. JULIE
says, ''rose by any other name will smell n
q, sweet" but the fish do not agree with her i
e. opinion. They stand upon names. They be
OF lieve in names as firmly 4 TRIsrRAM SHAND,
L They win not bite at the hook, if The rod
81, held by u man named PgTER. If man name
~ PETER cast a net or sein they will not /
TO taken. They do not like the name of PsrEf
n Their antipathy to it is traditional.
has come down TO them from the apos
toiic age. One of the disciples was name
~ PETER, and he fished u whole night withor
tn getting nibble. Wecould cite an example
he the same purport, in our own day, and OF
"a own city. But it is our policy stUdiously
lea avoid personalities. The inference is enough
h Fish will not be caught by any man bearr
he the name OF PETER. Therefore, we say
ak those who live by fishing, and bring up the
|. is offspring to the same calling, "if you have
he dozen sons, don't name one Of them PgrRR
he you do you, will spoil him for a fisherman, II
At. his whole life to come.''