The Republican journal., 1875-09-23
Observations of Men and Things,
BY OUR GEORGE.

Proud flesh: the ROYAL family.
song of the cauker: Oakum with me in
my little canoe
lie was killed by the blight of a rope, is the
| polite way of mentioning that man was hung.
| 1t Is the little things in this life that trouble
us the most. If doubts of this lnger in your
mind, get Il bristle i'll the roof of your mouth
after you have been using a tooth brush.
| We do not wish to parade our knowledge,
but we feel confident that the man that invent
ed this tarred roofing WAS either devoid of the
sense Of smell, or suffering from severe cold
in his head, when he boiled the first kettle of
tar.
GOOSE POND TEoUTING. Ever since the
days of Simon Peter, men have been prone to
| go atishing. and il is immatrrial TO the most of
| them whether they catch anything or not. The
pleasure consists more in the idea dian in the
reality. It's like getting tight. There is more
fun in contemplating II bat than there Is in hay
| ing one and getting over it. Nor do fishermen
care much what kind of fish they try for In
the winter they 6,h for pickerel through the
ice, stand round all day and feel a. unromfort-
able rs 4 snow pudding, and come home with
their face rs thoroughly red Is cyer the report
OF the Beechar trial was. III the spring they
| bait their hooks. and balance them selves over
| The bridge rail and haul in HE founder; and a
| LITTLE later start for the brooks for trout. and
! get everything hat what they 90 for. Get wet,
tired, bitten by mosquitoes, and generally have
| one splendid bite aud several nibbles from the
fish they are after. Probably there is not q
trout fisher living but what has walked ii least
fit, miles for every trout he has caught Then
come the thinkers. and catching them is almost
AS scientific as picking up chipS If they are
biting, it is as impossible to help catching them
as it j. the measles. Then the Summer is varied
! by the perch. pickercl. and tanners; and It's
always fun to fish for them, for the ride and the
lunch the going ana coming home. amply repay
one for the time spent; and It's lucky it does,
for the shermans basket is generally as empty
rs boys reason for moi wanting to 60 TO school.
But for real, solid fishing There is nothing that
we ever knew OF like fishing for Goose Pond
| trout
Swany lie is one of The finest sheets Of water in
Waldo county. Fed by springs, il is as cool as
Il book agent, and contains water enough to run
all The reform clubs in the stale. BY the inter-
position of Prov dencc or some other city, no
one has ever put pickercl into this pond; the
result is that it is fall Of trout, and Will always
remain full unless people have better luck get
ting them ont than we do. When we say full,
we do not intend TO convey the idea that YOU
can stand on the shore and load a cart fnl with
Il pitch fork. II it is any harder tor rich man
to enter the kingdom of heaven than tits 10 pull
Il trout ont Of Goose Pond, the rich man has our
deepest sympathy, and we would suggest TO him
not to attempt getting in at all. Like bed bugs.
these trout can only be hunted in the night.
They VIII not bite il the day time any more
than a frozen quito, ana the only time they
will bite at night is during the spawning sea-
son, and all the Sponducs in the world cannot
hire them to deyiate from this rule At those
times they run in at night to the spawning beds,
and then, if ever, they can be caught Just here
looms up difficulty az big as II North River
steamboat. for the Legislature has passed Il law
that during the spawning season, which lasts
from October first to January first, any per
son caught fishing for them, mot the Legisla-
ture, but the trout,) shall be fined $40 for fish
ing ana = 90 for each fish taken. There are in
every country. however, a large class Of per
sons who hinl1 that the only wrong there is in
breaking a law is in getting caught, and some
of that class have settled i'll our city. When
you see from two TO four men standing together
talking very quietly about something, ana oc,';l-
>ionally looking up ut the Sky, ii is safe to cal
culate that they are going to Goose Pond that
night; and when they separate. BY following
any one of them YOU VIII find him going direct
ly to the stable, where he viii get spade, aud
then lind an empty tomato can, ana proceed TO
that part Of his garden where he believe, the
angle worm can be hunted The ma>t success
fully. Setting down The can, he ~ljt> on his
hands, aud planting the end of the spade in the
ground. raises his foot. and intends bringing ii
down on the top Of the spade, but it Slips oil.
and the corner of the IRON gOu@c> up the side OF
his foot, and he blows something out of his
mouth that sounds like - WheW, by great
Gideon that hurt " Getting into position
again, he takes fairer aim at the spade, and
brings down his foot with power enough TO
drive the spade INTO the ground to the top of
the handle but when half WI, down the blade
strikes a rock and chances oil, and the handle
gives Jerk that nearly tears his arms ont Of
the sockets, flies out Of his hands and the end
hits him on his shirt front and lie steps back
Is suddenly as though m army mule had kicked
| him Then be fries the conservative method.
and digs easily. and in due time succeeds in
getting his can nearly full. lie wants few
| more, thinks Of another spot and starts for ii,
and after 4 time he strikes a fine school of nice
large worms, and then finds that he forgot to
bring his can along Picking up handful Of
| worms he goes back after his can, ANA arrives
! there just i'll time to see his hens swallowing
| the last of them. The liens are well ac-
| quanted with his different moods and lenses.
| that they do not wait for him to say ''shoo' at
them with u brick, but proceed to the barn to
reckon up how many eggs they can afford 10
| lay for that can Of worms. There being no one
round to hear him swear, he postpones it, and
getting his can, again goes through the process
of filling it. After tea he harnesses w his horse
and gets his traps" into the wagon. An out
| fit for such an excursion consists of an over
| coat, rubber boots, a little WillSkeN, bamboo
pole, Il lunch some matches, and little Wills
key; six dozen hooks, a small dppcr, some
| Whlskey; halter and blanket, Il quart Of angle
| worms, and be sure and not forget the wills
| key. AS you are liable to break a line, ii is
best TO carry an extra one along. and standing
in the midnight air one is liable to take cold
and to prevent such calamity It's safe to take
| al a small iaS Of xyh l,
pond, the horse is taken from the wagon and
htched in the woods and banleted and the fish
ennan proceeds to the shore. His line is lust the
length of his pole, 50 that the hook will swing
back into his hand, and ii usually does swing
back into lis hands, for they are ~ sore The
next day as though he had been holding bum
bic bees in them. He bats his hook by hang
ing on it in festoons all the worms it will pos
sibly hold. His pole is about fifteen feet long
| md no with, sinh,