The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1876-07-07
The Girls A-ffshing-What Naec, Splcn.
did Tlnaes They Have.
Nowal Hawkeye.l

did TlEaes They MRye. r-
lBurlinston tFewa1 Hawkeye9
There's generally about six OF them in the
bunch, with light dresses ON, aue they have
three poles, with as many HOOKS and lines
among them, As soon as they have got to
the river they lock for a good place to get
down on the RATS, and the NEST venture
some one sticks her boot-heoa in the bank
and makes two careful step4downs, then she
suddenly finds herself at the bottom with
both hands in the water, and feeling that
everybody in the wide world is looking at
her, and she never tells any one how she got
there. The other girls presiting by her ex-
ample, turn around and sc down the bank
on their lands and toes backward.
Then they Escamper uger the RATS until
they find shallow place where they can
see the isb, and shsut:
go! see one"
"Where2"
"Thcre.'
ooh! my, so he is. !"
"Let's catch him"
"Who's got the ban90 3....
"You lazy thing, YOU'RE sitting on my
pole" q,
Show me the a<yetch that stole my
bait"
All the eXcaanlatEe1s are gotten oil in a
tone that sends every fish within three acres
square into gallollng mysteries. Then tae
girls by suDcrhuman cXertion manage 80 get
worm on the bosk and "throw in" with
a splash like the launching OF a wash-tnb azld
await the result. when silyer-tn comes
along and nibbles the bait they pull up with
q Jerk that had an unfortunate fish weigh
ing less than fifteen pounds been on fiie
hook would have landed it in the nelghbor-
hood OF three or four miles out in the eovlli-
fnn Ia I<aIE l1l
contrives to get fastened on the hook OF q
timid woman, and she gives vent to her
tongue
MOh soanetlG1g's got on my hook
"Pull up, you little idiot!'' shouted five
excited voices as their poles and hooks are
dropped and they rush to the rescue The
girl with the bite gives aspasmodic JERK,
which sends the unfortunate sunny intethe
air the full length Of forty feet OF line, and
he comes down oa the nearest curly head
with a damp flop that sets the girl a-ciaWlng
as though there we're bumblebees IN her
hair! 4...
ooh, take it away. Ugh, the nasty
thing!"
Then they bold up their skirts and eather
about that fish rs il Slips over the logs. one
all the time holding the line in both hands,
with her foot on the pole, as though she had
IN eyil-disposed goat 1T the other end 1hey
talk over it.
Chow ever will Lie get OFF,"
"Ain't it pretty"
"Wonder II itain't dyy!"
"Poor little thing-led's put it back
Chow will we get the hook from it ~
"Pick il up" says a girl who backs rapae-
ly out OF the circle.
"Good gracious, Pm AFRAID OF it There,
it's opening its mouth ut me-"
Just then the sunny wriggles of the hook
and disappears between two logs iuto the
water, and the girls try for another bite.
But the sun comes dO%n 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 as many magpies.
II any unwary club dare 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-basket, climb up into the
woods, where they sit around on the grass
and caterpilars, and eat enough OF dried
beef and rusk and hard-boiled eggs to give
wocdhorse the nightmare; after which
they compare notes about their beaux until
shutdown, when they 60 home and plant
envy in the hearts of all their muslin-de-
laine friends by telling what "just splen-
did time" they had.