The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1880-04-24
SOMETHING OrArusu STORY.

VI telephons throughout that part Of China |
north Of Yang Use Kiang.
SOMETHING OF A FISH STORY,
TOLD ny A RESIDENT OF MILFORD wgo Drs-
PIsEs ANGLING FOR LITTLE BROOK TROUT
Now you kin all talk about trout fshin',
but give me sucker snarin' fur ginuwine
sport. Next to bob6in fur eels ther amt
no kind o fshin' that kin fetch one side
of it. 1t leaves trout fshin' 50 fur in the
rear that if the season lasted from Janiwary
to Janiwary it couldn't never ketch up"
That is Arch. Drinks opinion Of what is
the thing in angling. lie is authority on
the branches of the sport mentioned by him
If any one in Pike county is. lie fortlfes
his belief by fond recolleclions of the fas-
OF snare and bob.
"But ther amt no suckers nor no cells to
what they usty be-" he says "Lord the
suckers hev shared in that Sawkill Greek!
You couldn't get 'em in circus tent,I don't
b'lieve. And if l he'd all the wire Eye
used fur snares think could string tele-
graph wire from here to the Water Gap.
When you do git a sucker now, he don't
weigh more'n half Il pound, and when you
do git one he'll look at you kind o. sorrylul
as if he knowed he want the size he orto be.
The biggest one ever ketched weighed
seven pound three ounces, if remember
right. 1t mought a. ben three pound seven
ounces, though, come To think on it. 1t
was as big as a small baby, anyhow, and if
| could a dried its mouth and KEEP the shape
of it, it would made the properest kind
of a vinegar funnel had holt of one
more'n three ;imes as big as that un though
oncet. 1t was in the bend O. the creek over
by Tommy Newmans barn. was settn'
ON the rocks one day, with good copper
wire snare, watchn' lot o. suckers that
was layin' low in there. Pooty soon along
come fish that scaret me. thought first
he was a sturgeon, but soon see that he was
a sucker, and that ther was 50 much of him
that he must have commenced CROWN
when the creek did. If amt no ways out
o my head, 1 thinks to myself, I'd like to
make small bet that piece O. that ielIer
III be takin' the smell o. picked pork out
o my iryin' pan tonight"
"As luck had it, he came wigglin' his
self over to the edge o. the rocks, right un.
der where was. He looked like water soak.
ed log, and when he stuck his snout out to
forage fur grub, it put me in mind Of DIN
ner horn. My snare could be made into 8
circle half foot through, and fur a minute
| was durn skittish bout its goin' over the
suckers head, but they want no time t.
spare, and had to risk it. | Topped or
my stomick, and let the wire down into the
water. If that sucker hadn't ben as stub
born as he was big, I'd never got the snare
on him. l slipped it over his snout, anG
on down over his bead till is got where his
ears weuld ben if he'd had any, and
there it teched him. Now the ordinary
run o. sucker would q backed out'n thai
quickern an eel could wind Itself up in you
fish line; but this old mossback give {
lunge ahead like buttiR goat, and The
snare tightened plumb around his throat
A sucker amt the suddendest fish as pad
dies, and when cuteness was distributed
among fish, suckers was a little late gittin
there, and their share was slim. But thii
old fellow showed me few things didn'
| know about suckers, and the first thing
| knowed was guin' off o. them rocks us i
soft soap had been split on 'em, and the
next thing was sousin' in the brook and
'twiXt the fuss that tle sucker made and the
fuss that made, you couldn't a told wheth.
er he'd ketched the sucker or the sucker
he'd ketched me. kept hold on the wire
though, and sOor as got my plumb begun
to wade fur shore. But the fryin' Of thai
suckey Reyer smoked up my kitchen.
think he knowed what was up, and thought
he'd rather commit suicide. So he give one
rippin' plunge, and the wire cut his head
square of. The head popped up to Ehe top
o. the water, and come up SO suddent and
stared at me with such cussed big white
eyes that | come nigh startin' Oh run fur
home. Then | see the sucker, without any
| head, a swimmin' down the brook us if the
old boy hisself was after it, and it was soon
out O. sight. lugged the bead home
There amt usually much fodder on a suck.
er's head; but we billed that one, and il
made us family dinner, and what wa.
left made a good lunch fur II tramp that
came along. A few days aRerwurd, some
one down the creek come up and complained
that there was dead hog layn' in the
brook by the mill. | was constable, and
went down to have it moyed. Say, dom
want it to be thought that I'd stretch pint
to make a good yarn. But that want a
dead hog. 1t was the body O. that sucker