, 1876-08-11
n Girl. O. FishinE.
WHAT a uEAL srLESDrD rInE ruEr HAD.

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they have three poles. With a. many
hook. and lines among them.
A soon - they get 10 the river they
look for . good place 10 get down on
the rafts, and the most venturesome one
sticks her boot-heel in the bank and
makes two careful stepdovns; then ahe
Suddenly finds herself at the bottom
with both hands in the water and a feel
ing that everybody in the wide world is
looking Al her, and sho never tells any
one how abe got there. The other girls,
Prohting by her example, turn round
and 60 down the bank on their hands
and toes, backward.
Then they scamper over the RATS un-
til they find . shallow place; where they
can SEQ the ish, and shout:
"Ohl / see one"
"Where?"
There"
"Oh, myi so he is
Lets catch him?"
who's got them baits?"
You lazy thing, you're sitting on my
pole"
"ShoW me the wretch who stole nv
worm.I
All these ordinations are gotten of
in Q tone that awakens every echo with
in . mile around, and sends every fish
within three acres square into galloping
Mysteries. Then the girls, by superhu-
man exertions, manage to get o worm
on the hook, and throw in" with
splash like the launching of wash-tub,
and await the result. When q silver
fin comes along and nibbles the bait,
they pull up with jerk, that, had an
unfortunate fish weighing less than if
teen pounds been on the hook, they
would have landed it in the neighbor-
hood Of three or four miles out in the
country. After while afeeble-minded
sun6sh contrives to get fastened at the
hook of q timid woman, and she gives
vent to her tongue:
"Ohl something's got my hookT
Pull up, you little idiot" shout i've
excited voices, as poles and hooks are
dropped and they rush to the rescue.
The girl with the bite gives aspasmodic
jerk, which sends the unfortunate sunny
into the air the full length Of forty feet
of line, and he comes down on the
nearest curly head with o damp flop
that sets the girl to clawing as though
there were bumblebees in her hair.
"Oh! murderl take it away. Ughl
the nasty thingP'
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 over
"How ever will he get OFF,"
"Ain't it pretty?"
Wonder if it amt dryi"
Poor thing; let's put it back ?"
"How will we get the hook from it?"
"Pick it up" says girl who backs
rapidly out Of the circle.
GOOD graciousl I'm 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
backs of their necks, 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 to
show himself in the water, they poke
at him with their poles, much to his dis
gust. Finally they get mad all over and
throw their poles away, hunt up the
lunch basket, climb up into the woods,
where they sit around on the grass and
caterpillars, and eat enough dried beef
and rusk and hard boiled eggs to give a
woodhorse the nightmare; after which
kbav o0v,or,ora nofaa ahoy1k 4bair haor-
until sundown, when they go home and
plant envy in the hearts of all their
muslin-de-laine friends by telling what
"Just a splendid time they had.
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