Theophile Gautier. Mademoiselle de Maupin (№ 296863)

... engage on a fishing hook, the rose and you can sit with a fishing rod, while the spider does not weave a web in the crook of your elbow and catch even small fish; engage a worm or a piece of moldy cheese and carp, barbel, perch, eels will become three feet to jump out of the water to grab the bait. And people are different from fish less than people think.