The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1881-11-03
THE TROUT LIAR.
HE LIVES EVERYWHERE AND DRAWS
INsURkNCE FROM DEFEAT.

he LIVES EVERYWHERE AND DRAWS
IHsURkNCE FROM DEFEAT.
San Francisco Chronicle: "Phe
trout Iiar,'' said Captain Herbert, ''is
the gem of all fishers. He is the sad
-dle-rock liaFs a moose among ante
Iopes: Hyderion to satyr; he is
the long-tailed comet among the
quiet twinklers. All men can not be
trout liars. The trout liars must be
born with the peculiar fitness for the
task. and then he must he educated
to it and devote himself to trout lies
as a life-woPk. When David said in
his haste, 1All men are liars Saul
and Abin ad alb DOeg. the Edomite,
had probably just returned from
trout fish down along the brook in
the Vallry Elah, and were telling
what they had seen and what they
had done, and David, as he listened to
them numbering the unarmed truth,
naturally supposed there was no more
truth left in the hearts Of men in all
the wide world.
@The trout liar exceeds all other
liars, because the man who has done
any amount of trout fishing is, to a
| certain extent, a ira Eeled man. 1t is
| his custom to sit on the Yeranda and
| tell his stories, crushing all cOmpeti-
| ton. and putting his feet on the neck
| of all ordinary striped bass and land
4 locked liars. But if it happen that
| inst as he has told his master piece
! the oDnSsitiOR trout liaF comes in
with q rSght bower, q genuine royal
flush of a trout lie, the first liar is hurt
to the heart; hs is detected and sOr-
! rOwful, and says pGt another WOrG
that night. But he draws new ipspi-
ration from defeat, and the very peXt
place he goes to he appFOpriates the lif
that paralyzed him, and, unb1ushing-
ly claiming it as his own. defiantly
! crushing down all pitiful competition
with a crOwning lie that only two
days before had crushed him.
"There are several kinds of trout liars
The liar of weight, who never catches
more than half dozen trout day
but they each weigh anywhere from
five to ten pounds Then there is tht
liar of numbers, who always catche
SC many dozen in l hour and % min
utes-he is very exact as to the ode
minute. And there is the liar o
places, who knows hidden pools, darl
and still, in the secret places of tn
rocks, that are just boiling over wit
trout, and lie takes you under man
oAths of secrecy and by stealthy all
circuitOus routes to these places, an
YOU fish in them for eight mOrta
Il hours without a nibbIe. But you ca
nsver corner trout liar. Arithmeti
facts, science, probabilities, preceden
YcncrgI principles and the eternal ii
u, s. of ftings may combine in Over
VII ,lming array to prove him the aN
fullest liar in America it doesn't di
, f,Irb him, he Iios on, calmly, conf
dsntIv. enthusiastically always loca
ing the scene of bis lies so far ava
he is pretty certain yoE viii never
there.
"There are limits to hpRaaiE g@eliet
2 the good lester said, rising to hsS Iet
, EsYou may he,ieve what the Candida.
r saws Oh the stSklp; you may 'pe7e3'
what a man tells you in horse TRAD
a Won NAV bglieVe Cae army bar, al
S YOU NAV believe the snake liar, 10
o when a man takes lis cigar from b
: lips, and with a gIEileless staple pref
of a place and date, starts In ,Qn 2 tro
story, bar aud bolt and lock. 81
double lock the gates OF your inen
. when he gets to the place, i9op't u
lieye a single solitary trout. Rothlou!
= IT wei0hS less than a pound. Une'
3 he shadow of the trout, truth GA
D =, d the man who fishes four days ~
: .s,iIv hooks one lone trout, so SIM
Ts.ai he loses it in his empty bask
cC,q9n.s nome the biggest liar of the
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