Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1876-07-27
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CENTENNIAL FISHING LINES.

twas on bright lnidsummcr's morn
Just as tie baaaug sun
Ii.ssl peepets ABOVE the mountains top
His daily course &c rnn." u -,
We sailed inrths u gallant band,
Nv3n expectations wings.
To iry our luck for Cats and Bass
AT Dirtings famous springs.
Well armed were we with rods and lines,
With reels and tempting bait,
To captivate the tinny tribe
The small as well as great.
OftAead and 1acat and ''pics.and things
We had a DOitalteOus store, -. l.
Enough at:lsast for twenty men
And probably tor more, iii'
70 DirtInc,s ..classic" sh:,,les, We he,
By,whose perennial streams Il
What multitudes have barbacuel!
what levers told their draams!
Here freed from worldly care and strife
Rare sport our hearts shall cheer,
We II cat and drink and merry be
It'll evenings shades APPEAR
Our company is made. you'fl sec,
OF strictly business men,
Some WELD the yardStlck, some the rule,
'-iA1.a some the mighty pen, il IL
There's ~GrKuly' with his handsome phiz
fWho itli.inCierS til&la'.Le, sd -
And settle your estate X
And when our cruel war broke out
a soldier brave was lss,
A member of that famous tfnOp,
"Old Jacks foot cavalry.Hr
There's Georgy N. the man who does,
! The clerhing for the courts.
Not often floes.he spare the time
70 mlngle in such sports;
But II you'd see his long green pOle,
IThick as a threshnx mad,
You'd surely think him fishing for
A sturgeon or Il whale. i
Then there is Milt, who deals in clothes,
And other fixins too, '"
Who only goes q fishing when
Theirs nothing else tovte;
And when he goes the game he gets
You could not count by scores
For nearly all the fish he eats
He buys at ''uommodores.s
And Barney s. the man who sells
Prescriptions, pla sters, pills,
And lots of vile and nauseous stuff
TO compllcate our ills,
A fisherman he neer will be
So he had better stop II =
and give his whole attention to
His ''shoticart pep: ". i
And Pitt the lawyer calm, serene"
Aid gentle as can be.
YelEwoaM not think his tricky trade
Were'fit te*'such as he.
To take fish be lsulss.amorg
The pleasures OF his life ~.
And truthful Madame Rumor says
Ea's fishing for 4 wife. >.sr-
Tho next is .'Stuts," the ,reflhaired man,
The keencst sportsman hete. .
Who'll tell you every :nountair path
Frequcnted by the deer,
In fishing too he does excel
All who have gone before
And dearly. loves his choir, his band,
His eGrowIer' and his store.
Then there's Professor II. who doth
Well handle rods 1t school,
But you would .Nat hire him to fish
UnlesSs yuitswere fool. AZ
A fisher man he used to be.
Though not for cats or bass,
Not many weelss ago, they say,
He caiight II s%ifasaas!
And last. and probably the least.
OF all this festive throng,
Is he who writes these fishing lines,
This enrcherent song,
A fishing too he often goes,
But meets with, peoF sltecess.
For seldom is it TINT he gets =.
Enough to make Il mess.
AID now I've told you all about
This fishing psrty gay,
There only now remains, to tell
The luck they had that day
From ''Buzzard Roost" to .'Hottle's dam:
In al the shady hooks J
Wherever bass were thought 70 be
heT~cast their tempting hooks:
But all their arts and. precious Skill
And perseverance keen so
We're all IN vain. the fishes caught
Were '4GW asi far between"
And here might bad the time
Tell many funny things, i"
Told by the fishers as they sat
At dinnar ay the SPRINGS
of jokes and incidents and sclapes,
There surely wasEo ,s,elf,~'
For ''sruts' fell in and Carney" lost
HIS well filled haversaek,
But time and space forbid that
Should longer make my rhyme,
1on't hea* from me again some day
If we no aiOtbcr 4ina