Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1876-07-14

Source '1li7aoU-l- prOba6ly DGa5frt Nelrs.
There's generally about six OF them IN tbe
lines among them. N~
AS soon as they get TO the river they look
lor good place 10 get down on the rafts and
The most venturesome one sticks her boot
heels In the hank and makes two CAREFUL
SIC rs down; then she suddenly finds herself
AT the bottom with both hands In the water
and feeling that everybody in TINS vide
world i looking At her, aud She never tells
any body how she got there. Tue other girls.
Fronting by her example, turn around, and
80 down the bank on their hands aud toes
backwards.
Then they scsmper over the RATS until
tsey mo q shallow place where they eau see
oh, see one"
Where
There
90 my so he Is"
"lets catch him"
who's got them bsitsP''
10y on lazy thing, you're sitting on my
SHOW me the wretch that stole nv worm
Al these examinations are gotten OF In q
Tone mat awakens every echo within a mile
round and sends every fish vi Thin three sor.s
square into galloping mysteries. Then the
glIis by supeThuman eNertions manage To
get worm 90 tne hook, and throw in'' with
splash like the launcnIng OF a wash Inn
al d await the result. When siIver-lip comes
along aud nlbbles the bait taey pull up win
JERK that, had an unfortunate ash weigb-
Ing less than fifteen pounds oeea on fss
hook. would have landed ia TIE neichb,T.
hood ofthree or four miles out In the country.
After while feeble minded sundsh con-
tTlves 10 get fastened on the hook OF a timid
womsn, and she gives vent 20 her tongue.
"Oh' somethins got my hook"
"Pull up you little idiot" shout i've ex-
cited voices aS poles aud hooks are drAppef
and tEey rush 10 the fescle. The girl with
we blie gives sp3smOdic Jerk, which sends
me unlortunate sunny into the air The fun
length OF forty feet OF line, snd he comes
down on the nearest curly head with a damn
nOp thSt Sets the & III 10 ciaging as though
tnere were bumblebees in her hair.
Och! Murder! Take it away. Ughl the
nasty thing"
Then they hold no their skirts and gather
ABOUT lnat hsh as ~ skiPs over the logs, one
al The Time holding the line IN both hauds,
with her foot ON the pole rs though she had
s "a ey,l lie goat at the other end.
"How ever Will ne get orr
"Aint II pretty"
wonder n amt dry!n
Poor little thing let's put Il back
"How Will we get the hook from it?,
out of the circle.
"Good gracious, I'm afraid OF IL. There.
It's opening It's mouth at me-"
just then the sunny wriggles of the
nook and disappears between two logs into
ule water, ana the girls Try for another bite.
But the sun comes down and fries the
backs OF their necks, and they get three head
aches IN The party, and they all get cross
and scold at the hsh Ike 80 many msgpies.
III an unwary club dares show himself In
the wafer they POKE at him with poles
much 10 his disgust Finally they get mad
all over and throw their poles away, hunt
up the lunch baskets, climb up into the
woods, where they sit around on the grass
and caterpillars, and eat enough OF dried
beer and rusK and hard boiled eggs 70 give
wood horse the nightmare: after which
they compare notes about their beaux u nth
sundown, when they 20 home and plant
envy In the hearts OF all their muslin deIaine
friends by telling what 'just a splendid
time" they had.