Mexico weekly ledger., 1880-05-26
How the Ladies Fish.

HOW the Ladies Fish.
There are generally about six of
them in a bunch, with light dresses
on, and they have three poles, with
as many hooks and lines, among
them. AS 500 as they get to the
river they look for a good place to
get down the bank, and the most
venturesome II sticks her boot-heels
in the bank and makes two careful
steps down. then suddenly finds
herself at the bottom, with both hands
In the water, and a feeling that every
body in this wide world is looking at
her, and she never tells anybody how
she got there. The other girls, profit
ing by her example, turn round and
go down the bank on their hands and
toes, backward. Then they scamper
over the riffs until they find q shallow
place where they can see the fish, and
shout:
so, | see one!'
"Where:"
"There!"
ooh, my! so he is
"'Let's catch him."
"Who's got the baits:"
"lou lazy thing! you're sitting on
my pole!'
All these EXPLANATIONS are gotten
Off i'll a tone that awakens every echo
within Il mile around, and sends every
fish that hears it into ''galloping hys-
~terics.' Then the girls, by super
human exertions. manage to get q
worm on the hook and throw it in
with a splash like the launching of 8
wash-tub, and await the result. AZ
ter a while q feeble-minded suntish
contrives to get fastened on the hook
OF a timid woman, and she gives vent
to her tongue.
Oh,somethlng's got on nv hook
"Pull up, you little idiot!' shout
ed five excited voices, as poles and
hooks are dropped and they run to
the rescue. The girl with a bite
gives 4 %spasmodic jerk, which sends
the unfortunate sunny into the air
the full length of the hne, and he
comes down on the nearest curly
head with a damp flop that sets her
to clawing AS though there yer bum
BILE bees in her hair.
"Oh, murder! take it away! Ugh!
take it away, the nasty thing!'
Then they hold up their skirts and
gather round 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 end. Then they
talk it over.
''How will it ever get off,"
"Ain'ti it pretty
"Wonder if it amt dry"
"Poor little thing! let's put it
back
"Pick it up!' says the girl who
backs rapidly out of the circle.
Good gracious! I'm afraid of it.
There! it's opening its mouth at me-
Just then the ''sunny" wiggles of
the hook and disappears between two
logs in the water, and the girls try
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down and fries the back 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 poles, much to his
disgust. Finally they get mad all
over and throw the poles away, hunt
up the lunch basket, climb up into
the woods, where they sit around on
the grass and eat enough Of dried
beef and rusks and hard boiled eggs
to give a horse the nightmare, after
which they compare notes about theil
beaux until shutdown, when they &C
home and plant envy in the hearts o.
all their dear friends by telling then
what '.just a splendid time they had!''
Princcly Salaries.
President Jewett of the Erie Rail
way receives $40, 900 q year; Colone
Scott proci1apt of saynp railroads.