Louis Wain Fact #17:
In the 1910s, Wain and his family were struggling immensely due to a number of issues, such as copyright and paper shortages from the war, which led to a lack of demand for his work. Louis Wain had reportedly paid shopkeepers for their wares with his drawings. A fair trade, as nowadays simple sketches of his can go for hundreds of pounds.
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Rod and line and bait and hook:
"Who can tell? I may," thought he,
"Catch a sardine for my tea!"
Out he waded from the shore,
Then, for quite an hour or more,
There upon the post he say:
Then he caught — a tittlebat!
"Here's a catch at last," cried he;
"Just the very fish for me!"