“It always was the biggest fish I caught that got away.”
Our Biggest Fish, st. 2
A Little Book of Western Verse (1889)
“Oh, you who've been a-fishing will indorse me
when I say
That it always is the biggest fish you catch that
gets away!”
Our Biggest Fish http://books.google.com/books?id=odM-AAAAYAAJ&q=%22Oh+you+who've+been+a-fishing+will+indorse+me+when+I+say+That+it+always+is+the+biggest+fish+you+catch+that+gets+away%22&pg=PA184#v=onepage, st. 4
A Little Book of Western Verse (1889)
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