They said that as a poet, or a shilling shocker, or a reporter, or anything of that kind, I might be satisfactory, but that, to gain any position as a Thames angler, would require more play of fancy, more power of invention than I appeared to possess.
De sade att som poet, skillingtrycksförfattare eller reporter, eller någonting i den stilen, kunde jag kanske duga, men för att röna framgång som metare vid Themsen krävs mer fantasins flykt, mer uppfinningsrikedom än jag tycktes besitta.