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3	''The Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher'' is a children's book by Creator/BeatrixPotter. A frog gentlemen goes fishing for minnows to serve to his friends for supper. His fishing expedition is plagued with mishaps, culminating when he nearly gets eaten by a huge trout. In the end, he gives up on the minnow idea and instead serves his friends some nice roasted grasshopper.
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6	!!This work provides examples of:
7	* AnAesop: Sometimes it just isn't worth the trouble.
8	* ButtMonkey: Poor Mr. Jeremy. At one point, a bunch of little fishes even poke their heads out of the water and laugh at him.
9	* CatchYourDeathOfCold: Zigzagged. While it's explicitly said that Jeremy ''didn't'' catch a cold because of the water, this is implied to be because he's a frog, rather than because water doesn't actually give people colds.
10	* FiendishFish: Downplayed for the trout, who grabs Jeremy and it's implied he would've killed him, but spits him out due to hating the taste of the frog's raincoat.
11	* {{Fingore}}: The stickleback injures Jeremy's fingers, and he sucks on them.
12	* FoodEnd: The book ends with Jeremy and his friends dining.
13	* FurryReminder: Jeremy is mostly anthropomorphic, but he does have a wet house and he also eats bugs like a real frog.
14	* HalfDressedCartoonAnimal: Jeremy wears coats and shirts, but no pants. This comes in useful when the trout spits him out due to not liking the taste of his clothes.
15	* HappyRain: Jeremy likes getting his feet wet and is glad to see it raining. This is also because he plans to get some worms to use as fish bait.
16	* ImNotDoingThatAgain: Jeremy, after nearly getting eaten by the trout, declares he'll never go fishing again.
17	* KnowWhenToFoldEm: After the trout incident, Jeremy decides that the minnows just aren't worth it.
18	* LeafBoat: Jeremy uses a lily leaf as a boat.
19	* MayItNeverHappenAgain: Zigzagged. Jeremy decides he will never again go fishing lest he encounter the trout again, but in ''Literature/TheTaleOfGingerAndPickles'', he's seen trying on galoshes... but then again, it's never stated that he wanted the galoshes to fish with.
20	* MeaningfulName: His last name is Fisher, and he goes fishing.
21	* PikePeril: {{Lampshaded}} when Jeremy, after nearly being killed by a trout, says that at least it wasn't a pike.
22	* PunnyName: Sir Isaac Newton, who is a newt.
23	* ASimplePlan: All he wanted to do was catch a few fish.
24	* SpeciesSurname: One of Jeremy's friends is Sir Alderman Ptolemy ''Tortoise''.
25	* SuperPersistentPredator: Inverted with the trout — once it gets a taste of Jeremy's mackintosh, it completely loses interest in eating him.
26	* WeirdWorldWeirdFood: The narrator remarks that while roasted grasshopper with ladybug sauce is a delicacy to frogs, "I think it must have been nasty!"
27	* YouDirtyRat: {{Lampshaded}} when Jeremy hears an animal and worries that it's a rat.

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