The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1874-05-02
FISHING.
A Dry Old Joke on Wet Fisher of the
SpoTfive Bass.

a Dry Old Joke on a Wet Fisher OF the
Sportive Bass.
The other day I met Ben Martyr,
who looked so downcast and blue as to
lead me to suppose he had recently been
admitted as a silent partner into one of
the old-established undertaking firms.
/ stopped him to inquire into the cause
of his dejectedness, and asked him if
he had been sick.
No, said he, haven't been exactly
sick. Ben a fishing and got "a mac
nish-er-mac mac. nish-o-got fearful
cold and am sueezing myself thin.
went out on White river as one of a
small fshing-party. There were four
of us-Jerry Gill, Bob Wade, Jim
Wright and me. We went out to Rock
ford on the evening train, and camped
OF the banks of the mill-race for three
days 'rastle with those Indiana bass,
and set our hearts on having q good
time generally and plenty of-er, mac
snish-er, er, c-snish-ry-plenty OF
sport but as for me, can't say that
my anticipations were fully realized.
We turned into our blankets early af-
ter supper in order to get good, sound
sleep, so as to bea up afore day; and,
| ing. the air was raw and chilly, but /
never saw the signs look more favorable
| for big catch. A small scow, with a
| fiat bottom, lay tied to a root, and 1t
was proposed to occupy this bont and
! fish out of it, which we did, until the
rest of 'em tired of the plan and wanted
to go ashore again. You know how 1t IS
with a fisherman. You never saw one IN
your life who wouldn't change his spots
err, mac-mac-er, er, mac-nsh-ree =
| oftener than a chained bear, or hired
| girl. But knowing q quiet thing or
two which I kept to myself, after those
scoundrels had passed out, L stayed III.
I had had several as fine bites out OF
the stern.of that boat as ever curved g
rod or started "a reel, and l think l got
one light feel of pike, bat / won't be
positive as to that, At any rate, / was
mighty glad to get rid of EN-, and got
them out as quickly as possible, fearing
| they might change their minds and con-
clude to stay. But they got out-and
right here, blast them, IS whero they
fixed up Job on me that nearly made
a Job for the coroL er. You see, there
was two-inch plug, for'ard in the
boats bottom, that I hadn't observed,
and as they got out one of emf don't
know which, and it IS now the main
purpose of the rest of my life to fnd
out which one it eas,-one of 'em-er,
mac-nishro-oo er, mac-nish-ri- yGh-con-
found it viii l sneeZe myself blind
One of 'em quietly withdrew this plug,
and then skunk off lower down the
dam to watch the result. Well, mind
you, there we're seven or eight four
pound bass turning handspring
about my line, and, every moment ex-
pecting one to run with the minnow,
became so absorbed over my cork, and
so eager for the game, rs to be totally
oblivious of the fact that the boat was
filling, until, suddenly, she careen6d
ana sunk, pitching me overheard head
foremost. / went down like a hickory
shad, but managed with difficulty tC
swim ont, though completely exhausted
and nearly drowned. But L dldnt
mind drowning half so much as | die
the actions of that party after the thing
happened. There they were, Just IN
der the point below, with their idio
faces ablaze with laughter over wha
they facetiously called dry joke on me
Think of it, Will you? Think Of {
drowning companion being the obiec
of such levity. Aud those murderer
who set themselves up to be judges of (
good thing-this trio OF assassias tina
don't known, IN, er, -snish-yO-er
) ulhc- ul1-OOn hLON EOoO biAAAIeS HAAOi
they see it, and who might read Bailey
Budget through and through, and por
over Mark Twain's last book until the.
-. becaSNWm haired, and not have ap
sense enough to smile.
ssassins who didn't smile a
{ Ahing must coarsely laugl
.re over such feeble iok
8 - they played on me. Bn
T5zssfsg right. I didn't stay on Whit
, river to settle it. I came home on tn
, first train, and found a friend in til
| baggage-man who loaned me some DIR
!, clothes. The party viii be in on tn
noon train. and 1 must be off to tn
49, ku,sS.ssw friends from number siZ
ouse Will go down wit
the way, if you are goo
s, you might shake off
fling IN that line, leaving th
for the present. Good bye
p l.