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Both books were written in dialogue, and the two main characters, Piscator and Viator (changed in later Walton editions to Venator) are the same. Both books give similar information on how to bait a hook with a dead minnow and prepare certain kinds of fish. They even share the same errors. The author of the Arte says that the carp is "a fish not long knowen in England," while Walton says, "nor hath been long in England." Other coincidences...
Boxing v. Brothels. Father William Bergin was there. Tipperary-born Father Bergin, 86, could easily remember young Benny Sheil, his pupil at St. Viator College in Bourbonnais, Ill. who pitched a no-hitter for St. Viator against the University of Illinois. ("I had a terrifying amount of speed," says Bishop Sheil, thinking back.) Benny Sheil turned down offers to try out with both the Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago White Sox before he went back to study for the priesthood...
...Speaker Is Made. At St. Viator College, Bourbonnais, Ill., he was an excellent student. He did not go in for sports, preferring dramatics and essays for the college magazine. (Sample: "I can imagine a St. Francis looking at a virgin lily and saying: 'Who made you, little one, and who made you so lovely and so frail...
...Viator's won the debate. Sheen has been determinedly natural ever since...
Some of Swift's best letters and politer verses are included in this volume, and so is the proud Latin epitaph that he wrote for his tomb: ". . . ubi saeva indignatio ulterius cor lacerare nequit; abi viator et imitare si poteris strenuum pro virili libertatis vindicem . . ." W. B. Yeats, nearly 200 years later gave this inscription a great translation...