Excerpt from Quite at Home: With Illustrations From "Punch;" I don't think so. It seems to me to depend upon the fish] There was a Poet stopping at Boodels' who made this suggestion about setting lines. I seconded the motion, for several reasons. First - Because it was something to do. Secondly - Because I had often heard of lines, and wanted to find out what they were. Thirdly - Because I wished to find out if the Poet, who tried to appear so sporting, knew any more about it than I did. Judging from his blank look, when Boodels, pointing to something on the ground that appeared to me like a very large and very dirty-white tee-totum wound round with thick cord, said, Here's the Trimmer and the lines, I am convinced that the Poet had not the smallest idea what he had been talking about. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.