The Morning herald., 1876-06-21
THE GIRLS A-FlSHING.
w,,nt Nice splendid Times They
Have.

rr,om the Burling' on. uowD Hawk-Eve.l
rbcr.,s generally about six of them in
a., lunch. with light dresses on, and they
,'ra ,"Y three poles with as many hooks and
liSas nS,s amope them. AS soon as they get to
u" n',, rivpr they look for good place to get
VI, 1nu,n on the RATS, and the most venture
Oon,e one sticks her boot heel in the bank
sY1I' s'a makes two careful step-downs; then
S%a S" suddenly finds herself at the bottom
"th hoth hands in the water, and feeling
,hst Sa everybody in the wide world is looking
.'I " h.r and she never tells any one how she
aot there. The other girls, protiting by her
ssvomnle turn round and go down the bank
W. ,heir hards and toes, backward.
MEN they scamper over the RATS until
,,ey find shallow place where they can
zee the fish, and shout:
"Oh. see One."
"Where!"
There
'Oh! my, so he Is.
"Let's catch him."
"Wbo's got the bait!'
"You lazy thing, you're sitting on my
"Sbow me the wretch that stole my
worm"
an the exclamations are gotten off in
toup that sends every fish within three
acres square into galloping Mysteries. Then
tbo Girls. by superhuman exertions, man
ace to oet a worm on the hook, and "throW
in" with splash like the launching OF
wash-t,lb. and await the result. When
slyer-fn comes along and nbbles the bait
thay mil no with a Jerk that, had an un-
fortunate fish weighing less than hiteen
pounds been on the hook, would have
landed it in the neighborhood OF three or
lour miles out in the country Alter
while feeble-minded suniish contrlves TO
Get fastened on the hook of timid woman,
sud she gives vent to her tongue:
son. something's got my hookV
Pull up, youlttle idiot ~ Shont five ex
cited voices as their poles and hooks are
dropped and they rush to the rescue. The
grI with the bite gives spasmodic jerk,
which sends the unfortunate sunny into the
air the full length of forty feet OF line, anu
he comes down on the nearest curly neao
with damp flop that sets the gll 10 claw
ng as though there was bumblebee's IN her
hair,
"Oh, take it away. UGH the nasty
thirg.'
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 mad
an eyil-disposed goat at the other end. lhsy
talk overit.
"How ever will he get off!"
"Aint it pretty!"
"Wonder if it amt dry z"
"Poor little thing let's put it back.
"EIow will we get the hook from 1t
Pick it up" says girl who backs fa-
pidly out of the circle.
Good gracious, Pm afraid Of it. There
it's opening its mouth at me-"
Just then the sunny wriggles OH the nook
and disappears between two logs INTO lhe
water, and the girls try for another bite.
But the sun comes down and fries the backs
of their necks, and they get three headaches
in the party, and they all get cross ana
scold at the fish like so many magpies. Ii
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 basket, climb up into the
woods, where they st around on the grass
and caterpillars, 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 60 home and plant
envy in the hearts of all their muslin dc
laine friends by telling what ''just splen'
dld time" they had.