The Republican journal., 1875-11-04
Observations of Men and Things.
BY OUR GEORGE.

oho Plaoe YOU VIII yarn Gill; AND we proceed
to fix our trolling spoon, with its three wicked
looking hooks, to the end of our stout. braided
line, for unless the line is braided it will untwist
as the spoon revolves. We run out some 30 or
90 feet Of it over the stern of the boat and hold
the line eXpectantly. Our COMPANION is also
clutching his line, and his face exhibits interest
enough to pay 10 per cent. on the national debt
After time we begin to forget what we are
doing, as the trout do not seem to bite, and we
laugh and joke, when suddenly our comDanion
gives start from his seat, as though a bull
thistle had suddenly found its way into his
troWsers, and with Il tWitch at his line he sings
out had strikei I've got him. and he
begins to pull in his line with all his energy.
Hold on, hold on" shouts Sam; ''pull steady
ana slow, or you'll yank the jaw right off of
him. There, now, that's right easy 49, hand
me the dip nct-now we have him; :" and with
dip he brings up Il nice four pound brook
trout, that dances round like u hen With the
delirium tremenS. We continue to keep out
our trolls, and meet with varied success, till
suddenly something takes our hook with trc-
mendous force. We jump up as if IL girl had
sat down i'll our lap, and commence to pull
with yigor enough to pull the bottom of the
lake up, but the ever cautious Sam wells ont
"llold up, crazy, don't you know we are sail
ing six miles an hour, and you want to keep
calm and pull carefully" And then we pulled
with rs much care as though we had Il 1900 900
U. 5. bond on the end of our line. and in due
time sam dipped up and landed on deck IA sill
l.I-n .,
ing six pounds. If we had been the father Of
twins, we could not have felt 1rouder than at
that moment. Noticing that the fish looked
somewhat adermanic in proportions, we took
1t up 10 investigate matters, and on looking
into his mouth discovered the tail of fish
therein. Getting hold of it with hook we
pulled out Of that trout Il whtetsE that meas
sentence, it certainly looks the most like il lie
of any story we ever told; but if nobody ever
told yarn that contained any more lie than
that, there will be no Use for the day of iudg-
ment AS we hauled that fish into the light of
day, we could not help addressing few ap-
proprate remarks TO the trout on the evils of
gluttony. Here was trout with fish i'll him.
"
anxious for one more bite Of something as
though his NAV was as empty US the peWs in IL
church. The moral of this is, swallow what
you have i'll Your mouth before putting any
more in, and Ben. Franklin never made Il bet
ter remark than that. even though he used to
fly 4 kite built out of a red bandanna. In troll
ing, the fisherman gets but two kinds of fish,
h., IoL - I'm al
trout. The lakers are scaleess. like the trout,
are mottled and spotted, though not with the
peculiar red spot; their meat is white, instead
Of salmon colorcd, and their tail is forked, or
rs we say, "swallow tailed" They vary in size
from pound to rs high as twenty pounds,
though ten Founders are full rs scarce as honest
men. The brook trout run from the tiny little
chaps that we find in our streams, to nonstrous
fish two feet long, and weighing as high as ten
pounds. They ali look alike, spotted with bright
red spots, flesh beautiful salmon color, and
tail square. The brook trout is the hantsomer
fish, but the man does not live with taste so
nice that he can tell which he is eating, simply
by the taste. This is our own opinion on the
matter, and we have IL dollar or SO laid by to
desiring to bet With us are to furnish the fish
and cat them; all we ask to do is to cook them.
Here let us say that of all the different ways
that Il trout was ever cnticed into the human
stomach, there is no way that they will slide
into u man, with such satisfaction to the man,
as broiled before an open fire Split the fish
on the back, head and all, just as YOU would a
r1nrkprpI Dut hin, il, n 1yirp broad tpo Stnr ON
the upper part of the fish lay on some strips OF
pork, and Droll I'LL ho * nicely Drowned; then
butter wel-put ON the butter as if it was only
ten cents Il pound - eat while hot and thank
the Lord that all fish are not herring or secre-
tarieS of State.
our first camp was at an old tishcrlnans
camp on Lucky Brook, Spencer Bay. 1t was a
log Shanty about 10 feet square on the ground,
with a shed roof which came nearly to the
ground on the back side, thatched with cedar
splits and then covered with fir boughs. A
chimney made of poles, a fireplace on one side
of the camp, the fire being built against the
logs. Why those logs did not take fire will al
ways puzzle us if we live TO be 300 wears old.
Our bed was made of the small tw.s of the fir
tree, and as soft us any bed we ever laid in,
while the fragrance of the boughs filled the
camp, and mingled with the smoke and smell
Of fried fish. During the night it raned very
hard, and continued during al the following
day. As we laid on our bed and looked up
through the cracks in the roof we wondered
how camp could be made without Il single
nail and yet be 50 tight that not Il drop of water
thrDIUI when there is hardly n nj
Il house in our city but what leaks Il little some
where, and yet, all the skill, ingenuity and pa
tent roofing of man are expended on them.
There never was Il drunkard that was tighter
than that camp We shall remember that night
in camp long time. If our memory is Il thou
sand miles long we shall remember ii its whole
length. We awoke in the night by hearing the
We cuddlcd up close TO Sam and listened again.
1t seemed to us like the scrccching of whole
menagere operated by steam power. We heard
train of army mules sing once, but it beat
that. The camp was in total darkness, but we
could see it filled with bears, caribou, loupcer-
vies, wild cats and hyenas, and we would will
ingly have changed our bed for a roost on our
of night to cover us. We were favored with
three yells, and the next morning when sam
said to us, "Did you hear that owl last nightf''
we wanted a hole to open into the earth and
let us down about half a mile. We learned
then the truth of the adage ''born in the woods
to be scared by an owl" 1t was the biggest
howl we ever heard. We got our first taste of
canoe riding al this place. OF all the uncer-
tain things in this life, Il canoe is the worst
They are as frail rs woman, and will upset "a
man just about as quick. Riding bareback on
knitting needle would be excellent prepare
tory exercise to one intending to practice cano-
ing. sam first filled the canoe full of our plum
der, then our companion got in, then we got in,
and then sam. Handing us paddle, he told
US to get down on our knees in the bow of the
canoe, and we sank down in the natural and
familiar attitude of prayer, and if ever one
needs to be in such an attitude, it is when he
makes his debut in canoe. If we could have
got hold of our check book, we would have