The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1876-06-28
TIE DEAR CREArUREs.
what . Nice Time they have . Fish
Ing.

From the Burlington, la, Hawkeys.
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 good place to
get down on the RATS, and the most ven-
turesome one sticks her bootheel IN the
bank, and makes two careful stsp-downs;
then she suddenly finds herself at the bot
tom with both hands in the water, and =
feeling that everybody in the wide world
is looking At her, and she never tells any
one how she gets there. The other girls,
proiting by her example, turn around
and go down the bank on their hands
and toes, backward.
Then they scamper ever the RATS until
they ind shallow place where they can
see the fish and shout
"Ol see one.n
"Where?"
There
"Oh! my, SO he is"
Lets catch him."
Who's got the bali?
You lazy thing, you're sitting on my
pole
All the exc amations are gotten of in
8 tone that sends every fish within three
acres square into gsllopng Mysteries.
Then the girls, BY superhuman exertions,
manage ~ ges worm on the hook, and
throw in" with splash like the launch
ing of q wash-tub, and await the result.
When q silver in comes along and nib
bes the bait, they pull up with jerk
that. had an unfortunate fish weighing
less than fifteen pounds been on the hook,
would have landed it in the neighberhood
of three or four miles out in the country.
After while a feeble. minded sunfsh
contrives to get fastened On the hook OF q
timid woman, and she gives vent to her
tongue:
Oh! something's got my hook!'
Pull up, you little IDIOT! shout i've
excited voices, IS 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
of line, and he comes down on the Rear
est curly head with damp flop that sets
the girl to clswing as though there were
bum olebees in her hair
'Ohl take IL away. Ugh, the nasty
thing!'
Then they hold up their skirts and
gather about that fish SIS 1t ski 5 over tue
logs, one all the time holding The line IN
both hands, with her foot on the pole as
though she had an evil-dlsposed boat At
the other end. They talk over It.
How ever will he get OFF,
Amt it pretty2"
"Wonder # 1t amt dry"
Poor little thing; let's put it back
Pick it up, Says girl who backs rap
idly out of the circle.
Good gracious, I'm afraid oft. There
it's opening its mouth at me-
Just then the sunny wriggles OF the
hook and disappears between two logs
into the water. and the girls try for an
ether bite.
But the sun comes down and fries the
bae IS of their aecks, and they get three
headache in TIE party, and they get cross
and scold at the fish like so many mag
Die. If an unwary club dares show
himself in the water they poke at him
with their poles, much 70 his disgust
Finally they get mad all over and throw
their poles away, hunt up the lunch has
ket climb up into the woods, where they
sit sround on the grass and catterpillsrs.
and eat eaougk of dried beef and rusk
and hard boiled eggs to give aWoodhorse
the nightmare: after which they compare
notes about their beaux until SHUTDOWN,
when they go home and plant envy 10
the hearts of all their muslin de lame
friends by telling what 'just splendid
time they had