the tale of mr jeremy fisher by beatrix potter

‘I’m getting rather fed up,’ he thought, ‘time for lunch, I think.’ For an hour he sat staring at the oat and not one fish paid any attention to it. Then he cast his line into the water and waited. Mr Jeremy sat cross-legged and fastened a little red oat to the end of the line and tied a wriggling worm to it. His fishing rod was a tough blade of grass and his fishing line was a strand of white horse hair. Mr Jeremy stuck his pole into the mud and tied the green leaf boat to it. He took a reed pole and pushed his boat into the open water.

‘I know the perfect place to catch minnows,’ announced Mr Jeremy Fisher. The boat was round and green and very much like all the other water lily leaves on the surface on the pond. He made a packed lunch of butter y sandwiches, grabbed his fishing rod and set off with enormous hops across the lily pads to the place where he kept his boat. Mr Jeremy put on a raincoat and a pair of shiny waterproof shoes called galoshes. But, as the tortoise is vegetarian, he prefers salad.’

I shall have a dish of tasty minnows for my dinner and, if I catch more than five fish, I will invite my friends Mr Alderman the Tortoise and Sir Isaac Newton to join me.

‘I will dig up some worms to use as bait and go fishing. Large drops of rain splashed into the pond. One morning, Mr Jeremy Fisher opened the window of his little house and was pleased to see that it was raining. But he didn’t mind and, because he lived on his own, there wasn’t anyone to tell him off for not wearing wellington boots. There was water everywhere in the house and it made the floors very slippery as it slopped against the walls and down the hallway. He lived in a little, damp house among the buttercups at the edge of a pond. Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Gabon Republic, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greenland, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S.Once upon a time there was a frog called Mr Jeremy Fisher.

The tale of mr jeremy fisher by beatrix potter