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010 - The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher · The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Others

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  Speaker 1: Story number ten of Peter Rabbit and Other Tales by
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  Speaker 1: Beatrix Potter. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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  Speaker 1: are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer,
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  Speaker 1: please visit LibriVox dot org. Recording by Bianca Madison Amos,
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  Speaker 1: the host of the Once Broken podcast website Bianca Mattison
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  Speaker 1: Dashaimos dot com. Peter Rabbit and Other Tales by Beatrix Potter.
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  Speaker 1: The Tale of mister Jeremy Fisher. Once upon a time
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  Speaker 1: there was a frog called mister Jeremy Fisher. He lived
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  Speaker 1: in a little damp house amongst the buttercups at the
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  Speaker 1: edge of the pond. The water was all slippy, sloppy
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  Speaker 1: in the larder and in the back passage. But mister
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  Speaker 1: Jeremy liked getting his feet wet. Nobody ever scolded him,
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  Speaker 1: and he never caught a cold. He was quite pleased
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  Speaker 1: when he looked out and saw large drops of rain
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  Speaker 1: splashing in the pond. I will get some worms and
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  Speaker 1: go fishing and catch a dish of minus for my dinner,
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  Speaker 1: said mister Jeremy Fisher. If I catch more than five fish,
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  Speaker 1: I will invite my friends. Mister Alderman, tottle me tortoise,
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  Speaker 1: and Sir Isaac Newton. The Alderman, however, eats salad. Mister
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  Speaker 1: Jeremy put on a macintosh and a pair of shiny
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  Speaker 1: goloshesh He took his rod and basket and set off
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  Speaker 1: with enormous hops to the place where he kept his boat.
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  Speaker 1: The boat was round and green, and very like the
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  Speaker 1: other lily leaves. It was tied to a water plant
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  Speaker 1: in the middle of the pond. Mister Jeremy took a
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  Speaker 1: reed pole and pushed the boat out into open water.
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  Speaker 1: I know a good place for minnus, said mister Jeremy Fisher.
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  Speaker 1: Mister Jeremy stuck his pole into the mud and fastened
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  Speaker 1: the boat to it. Then he settled himself cross legged
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  Speaker 1: and arranged his fishing tackle. He had the dearest little
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  Speaker 1: red float. His rod was a tough stalk of grass,
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  Speaker 1: His line was a fine, long white horse hair, and
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  Speaker 1: he tied a little wriggling worm at the end. The
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  Speaker 1: rain trickled down his back, and for nearly an hour
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  Speaker 1: he stared at the float. This is getting tiresome. I
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  Speaker 1: think I should like some lunch, said mister Jeremy Fisher.
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  Speaker 1: He punted back again amongst the water plants and took
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  Speaker 1: some lunch out of his basket. I will eat a
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  Speaker 1: butterfly sandwich and wait till the shower is over, said
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  Speaker 1: mister Jeremy Fisher. A great big water beetle came up
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  Speaker 1: underneath the lilies and tweaked the toe of one of
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  Speaker 1: his gunashesh Mister Jeremy crossed his legs up shorter out
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  Speaker 1: of reach, and went on eating his sandwich. Once or twice,
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  Speaker 1: something moved about with a rustle and a splash amongst
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  Speaker 1: the rushes at the side of the pond. I trust
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  Speaker 1: that it is not a rat, said mister Jeremy Fisher.
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  Speaker 1: I think I had better get away from here. Mister
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  Speaker 1: Jeremy shoved the boat out again a little way and
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  Speaker 1: dropped in the bait. There was a bite almost directly
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  Speaker 1: the float gave a tremendous bobbit A minnow. A minnow.
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  Speaker 1: I have him by the nose, cried mister Jeremy Fisher,
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  Speaker 1: jerking up his rod. But what a horrible surprise. Instead
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  Speaker 1: of a smooth, fat minnow, mister Jeremy landed little jack sharp,
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  Speaker 1: the stickleback covered with spines. The stickleback floundered about the boat,
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  Speaker 1: pricking and snapping until he was quite out of breath.
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  Speaker 1: Then he jumped back into the water, and the shoal
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  Speaker 1: of other little fishes put their heads out and laughed
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  Speaker 1: at mister Jeremy fisher. And while mister Jeremy sat disconsole
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  Speaker 1: on the edge of his boat, sucking his sore fingers
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  Speaker 1: and peering down into the water, a much worse thing happened,
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  Speaker 1: A really frightful thing it would have been if mister
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  Speaker 1: Jeremy had not been wearing a macintosh. A great, big,
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  Speaker 1: enormous trout came up curve with a splash, and it
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  Speaker 1: seized mister Jeremy with a snap Oi oi oi, and
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  Speaker 1: then it turned and dived down to the bottom of
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  Speaker 1: the pond. But the trout was so displeased with the
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  Speaker 1: taste of the macintosh that in less than half a
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  Speaker 1: minute it spaed him out again, and the only thing
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  Speaker 1: it swallowed was mister Jeremy's glashesh Mister Jeremy bounced up
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  Speaker 1: to the surface of the water like a cork and
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  Speaker 1: the bubbles out of a soda water bottle, and he
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  Speaker 1: swam with all his might to the edge of the pond.
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  Speaker 1: He scrambled out on the first bank he came to,
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  Speaker 1: and he hopped home across the meadow with his macintosh
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  Speaker 1: all in taters. What a in mercy that was not
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  Speaker 1: a pike, said mister Jeremy Fisher. I have lost my
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  Speaker 1: rod and basket, but it does not much matter, for
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  Speaker 1: I am sure I should never have dared to go
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  Speaker 1: fishing again. He put some sticking plaster on his fingers,
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  Speaker 1: and his friends both came to dinner. He could not
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  Speaker 1: offer them fish, but he had something else in his larder.
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  Speaker 1: Sir Isaac Newton wore his black and gold waistcoat, and
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  Speaker 1: mister Alderman Tottlemy Tortose brought a salad with him in
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  Speaker 1: a string bag, and instead of a nice dish of minnows,
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  Speaker 1: they had a roasted grasshopper with ladybird sauce, which frogs
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  Speaker 1: consider a beautiful treat. But I think it must have
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  Speaker 1: been nasty. The end and off the tail of mister
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  Speaker 1: Jeremy Fisher