Excerpt from Fishing Gossip: Or Stray Leaves From the Note-Books of Several Anglers

Gudgeon, - Hurley - Julia; - Nothing particularly exceptional or congruous surely in these three substantives that they should insist upon presenting themselves to my mental camera in such pertinacious juxtaposition? Nice, silky, euphemistic words they are, no doubt - words naturally suggestive of gurgling water, whispering willows, and what Barney Maguire calls the "laste taste in life" of dilettante sentimentalism; - but is that any reason for their ringing the changes in a sort of "grand chain" through my head all night, and taking me a regular slap in the face this morning the moment I opened my eyes upon the quadrangle of old Trinity Hall? Heigh-ho! who"d have thought that a week"s gudgeon-fishing would have produced such psychological manifestations? And am I not lying, too, in saying that gudgeon is a euphemistic word?

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