Nobody don't hear
'em but fishermen."
II
But it was of another kind of knowledge he oftenest spoke, and of
which I shall try to tell you, in his own words as nearly as
possible.
First let me say that if there should seem to be the faintest tinge
of irreverence in aught I write, I tell my story badly. There was
no irreverence in Fishin' Jimmy. He possessed a deep and profound
veneration for all things spiritual and heavenly; but it was the
veneration of a little child, mingled as is that child's with
perfect confidence and utter frankness. And he used the dialect of
the country in which he lived.
"As I was tellin' ye," he said, "I allers loved fishin' an' knowed
't was the best thing in the hull airth. I knowed it larnt ye more
about creeters an' yarbs an' stuns an' water than books could tell
ye. I knowed it made folks patienter an' commonsenser an'
weather-wiser an' cuter gen'ally; gin 'em more fac'lty than all the
school larnin' in creation. I knowed it was more fillin' than
vittles, more rousin' than whisky, more soothin' than lodlum.
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