Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1876-07-06
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Burlington Iowa.) Hewkeye.
There's generally about six of them in
the bunch, with light dresses on, and they
have three poles, with as many hooks and
lines among them. As soon as they get
to the river they look for a good place to
get down on the RATS, and the most ven
turesome one sticks her boot-heel in the
bank and makes two careful step-downs;
then she suddenly finds herself at the bot
tom with both hands in the water, and a
feeling that everybody in the wide world
is looking at her, and she never tells any
one how she got there. The other girls
prOhting by her example, turn round and
go down the bank on their hand and toes,
backward.
Then they scamper over the RATS until
they hnd a shallow place where they can
see the fish, and shout:
stOhl / see one.'
''Where g''
,ssThere."
sfOhl my, so he is y
stLet's catch him.
''WhO's got the bait ?''
s'You lazy thing you're sitting on my
''show me the wretch that stole nv
wOEm.''
All the exelamations are gotten of in a
tone that sends every fish within three
acres square into galloping Mysteries.
Then the girls, by superhuman exc rtions
manage to get worm on the hook. and
throw in" with splash like the launch
ing of washtub, and await the result
When silYer-fin comes along and nibbIes
the bait they pull up with a jerk that,
had an unfortunate fish wei Ching less
than fifteen pounds been on the hook,
would have landed in the neighborhood
OF three our four miles out in the country
After while feeble-m minded sunfish con-
tr1yes to get fastened on the hook of
timid woman, and she gives vent to her
tongue
sSoh! something's got my hook -
Pull up, you little IDIOT" shout five
excited voices as their poles and hooks are
dropped and they rush to the rescue. The
girl with the bite gives spasmodic jerk,
which sends the unfortunate sunny into
the air the full length of forty feet ofline,
and he comes down on the nearest curly
head with damp flop that sets the girIto
elawing as though there were bumblebees
in her hair!
..0h! take it away. Ugh, the nasty
Then they hold up their skirts and
gather about that fish as it skips over the
logs, one all the time holding the line in
both hands, with her foot on the pole as
though she had an evil disposed goat at
the other end. They talk..OYer it.
''How ever will he get off?''
"Ain't it pretty ?''
wonder lift amt dry?''
Poor little thing; let's put it back -
How will we get the hook from it ?''
Pick it up, says girl who backs rap
idly out of the circle.
''GOod gracious, I'm afraid of it. There
| it's opening its mouth at me.''
just then the sunny wriggIes off the
hook and disappears between two logs
into the water, and the girls try for an
other bite.
But the sun comes down and fries the
backs of their neeks, and they get three
headaches in the party, and they all get
cross and scOld at the fish like so many
magpies. If an unwary club dares show
himself in the water they poke at him
with their poles, much to his disgust
Finally they get mad all over, and throw
their poles away, hunt up the lunch bas-
ket, climb up into the woods, where they
sit around on the grass and caterpilIars,
and eat enough of dried beef and rusk and
hard-boiled eggs to give wOodhOrse the
nightmare; after which they compare
notes about their beaux until sundown,
when they go home and plant envy in the
hearts of all their muslin delaine friends
by telling what '.just splendid time"
| they had.