"Here lies poor Thompson, all alone;
As dead and cold as any stone.
In wading in the river Nith,
He took a cold, which stopp'd his breath.
He fish'd the stream for ten years past,
Death caught him in his net as last.

Written on a tombestone in Dumphries, England
Quoted by Tim Binn In "The Almost Compleat Angler" [1988]

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