The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1876-06-24
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THE GIRLS A.FISHING.
What Nice, Splendid Times They
HIVE.

Have.
tF,om tho darlington (Iowal IIaWk'Eye
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
ge, to the river they look for a good
place to get down on tho RATS, and the
most venturesomc one stiCks, her boot.
heel in the bank and makes two careful
r,ep4lowns; then she suddenly finds her
sell at the bottom with both hands in The
water, and q 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 exam
pie, turn round and go down the bank on
their hands and toes, backward: =,
Then they scamper over the rats un..'
they find shallow place where they can
zee the fish and shout:
"0h | sec one"
"Where|
"There." .....
"Oh my, so he Is"
"Let's catch him" .-''
"Who's got the bait?| .,,;,,. -, M,
"You lazy thing, you're sitting on my
pole" -, ,h,t s,o,o wv
worm" r:
tone that sends every fish within three
acres square into galloping Mysteries.
Then the girls, by superhuman exertions,
manage 10 get worm on the hook and
"throw in" with the splash like the
launching Of wash.tub, and await the
result, When u silycr.tin comes along
and nibbles the bait they pull up witha
jerk that, had an unfortunate fish weigh
ing less than fifteen pounds been on the
hook, would have landed il in the neigh
borhood OF three or four miles out in the
country. yAfter while feeble.minded
sunfish contrives to get fastened on the
hook Of timid woman, and she gives
vent to her tongue:
"Oh! 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
the full length OF forty feet Of line,
and he comes down on the nearest curly.
head with damp flop that sets the girl
TO clawing as though there were bumble-
bees in her hair
ooh! take it away. Ugh, the nasty
thingr
Then they hold up their skirts and
grther about that fish ms 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 IN evil disposed goat at
the other end. They talk over it.
allow ever will he get OFF,
"Ain't he pretty ?" Z
"Wonder Il it amt dry%
"poor little thing; let's put il back r
allow will we get the hook from III"
"PiCk it up" says n girl who backs
rapidly out OF the circle.
"Good gracious, Pm afraid Of it. 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
other bite.
But the sun comes down and fries the
back OF their necks, and they get three
headaches in the party, and they all get
cross and scold ut the fish like so many
magpics. 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 bas.
ket, climb up into the woods, where they
sit around on the grass and caterpillars,
and eat enough Of dried beef and rusk and
hard boiled eggs to give a wood.horSe the
night-mare; alter which they compare
notes about their beaux until shutdown,
when they go home and plant envy in the
hearts OF ali their muslin delaine friends
by telling what "just splendid time"
they had.