The post. [volume] (Middleburg, Snyder County, Pa.) 1864-1883, 1876-05-11
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How The Ladies Fish.
There's generally about ak o
them in the bunch. with light dress
90 on, aud they havc threo poles
with Us many hooks aud limos among
them.
AS soon rs they get to tho rivel
they look for good place to get
down on the Rats. and the most ven
turesome one sticks her boot heels il
the bank and makes two carefu
stepdowns then sho suddenly finds
herself at the bottom with b ,tll
hands in the water aud feeling tina,
everybody in this wide world il look
ing at her, snd she never tells any
body how she got there The other
girls, proiiting by her example, turn
around aud 60 down the bank on
their hands and toes, backwards.
Then they scamper over the RATS
until they find a shallow place where
they can see tho fish and shout
"Oh I see one"
"Whoref'
"Thore." "
''Oh nv 80 he ia"
Lets catch him"
"Who's got them bats 7"
Somebody's got my hook.
"You lazy thing, you're sitting on
my pole.
"Show me the wretch that stole
my worms"
All these exclamations are gotten
of in tones that awaken every echo
within mile round, and send every
fish within throo acres square into
galloping Mysteries Then tho gir Ia
by super.human oxertions finally get
aworm on the hook, aud "throw in =
with a splash like the launching of IL
wsshtub, and await tho result. When
q silver fin COMES along and nibbles
the bait they pull up with jerk that
had an unfortunate fish weighing
less than fifteen pounds been on the
hook. would have landed in the
ncighborhood Of three or four miles
out in the country. After awhile a
feeble minded sunfish contrives to
get fastened on the hook Of . timid
woman aud she gives vent to her
tongue:
'Oh something's got my hook T.
"Pull mp you little idiot !! shout
five excited voices "a poles and hoo KS
are dEopeSprcd thew rneh to he
rescue. THe girl we s tno o,cu gives
spasmodic jerk, which sends tue
unhappy sunny into the air the full
length Of forty feet Of line. and he
comes down on the nearest curly
head with a damp flop, that sets the
girl to clawing as though there were
bumblebees in her hair.
"Och! Murder! take it away
Ugh the nasty thing
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 feet
on the pole as though she had an
evil disposed goat at the other end,
which she expected to butt her at
any moment. Then they talked it
over.
"How ever will ho get Oft"
"Aint it pretty?
"Wonder if it amt dryf'
poor little thing, let's put it
back
"How will We get the hook from
itfr
"Pick il up says girl who backs
rapidly out OF the circle.
Good gracious, I'm afraid OF it -
There its opening its mouth at me,
Just then tho sunny wriggles of
the hook and disap pears between
two logs into the water and the girls
try for another bite.
But the sun comes down and fries
The back OF the necks, and they get
no more bites, and they get three
headaches in the party and they all
get cross aud scold at the fish like
30 many magpies' II and uawary
club dsres show himself in the wa.
ter they poke at him with their poles
much TO his disgust. Finally they
got mad all over and throw their
Polos away. hunt up the lunch bas-
kets, climb up into the woods, where
they sit around on the grass and cat
erpillars, and sat enough OF dried
beef and rusk and hard boiled eggs
to give q wood horse the nightmare;
after which they compare notes
about their beaux until sundown,
when tho 90 homo and plant envy
In tho hearts of VII their muslin de-
lame friends by telling what "jast
Asplendid time" they had.
Ar tho Yorkvills. New York.
pNlioo court. on Monday last man