St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1882-09-16

tured as though we had never had
ary trouble at all. We let him stay
all night with us, and gave him a
napkin with n red border to sleep
on, under a tree, cause there were
no. blankets enough to go round,
and in the morning let him have
one of the soda crackers / had in
my shirt bosom, and he wanted to
go fishing with US. He said he
would show us how to fish. So he
got piece of pork rind at farm
house for bait, and put it on hook,
ana we got in an old boat, and my
chum rowed and pa and trolled.
In swinging the boat around pas
line got under the boat, and come
right up near me. l don't know
what possessed me. bnt / took hold
of pas line and gave it q "yank. :"
and pa jumped SO quick his hat fell
off Ill the Lake. stopper says
pa, i've got whale" It's mean
In man to call his chubby faced
little boy whale, but the whale
yanked again, and pa began to pull
uim i'll. / hung on, and let the line
out q little ut time, just 'zackly
like fish, and he pullea and sweat,
and the bald spot on lis head was
getting sunburut, and the line cut
my hand, SO l wound it around the
oar-lock, and pa pulled nearly hard
enough to tip the boat over. He
thought he had forty pound mus
cu!uuger, and lie stood up in the
boat aud pulled on that oar-lock as
hard as he could. | ought not to
have done it, but I loosened the
line from the oar-lcck, and when it
Stacked up pa went right over the
side of the boat, and struck on his
pants, and split a hole III the water
US blg as u wash-tub. His head
went down under the water. and
his boot heels hung over In the
boat. "Whut you doin? Diving
alter the fish," sa, |, as pas head
came up and he blowed out the
water. 1 thought pa belonged to
the church, but ne said, "you
damidyut." guess he was talk
iLg to the fish. veil, sir, my chum
took hold of pas foot and the collar
of ais coat, and held him to the
stern Of the boat, and | padded
the boat to the shore, aud pa crawl
ed out and shook himself.
l never had no iiec u mans pants
could hold SO much water. 1t was
just like when they pull the thing
on street sprinkler. J hen pa took
off his pauts and my chum and me
took hold of the legs and pa took
hold of the summer kitchen, and We
wrung the water out. Pa want 50
sociubie after that, AMI he went
back into the woods with bis knife,
with nothing on but linen duster
and neck lite. while his pants We're
driving on tree, to cut switch,
and we hollered to him that d party
of picnicers from the Lake Side
were coming ashore right where his
pants were, to have q picnic, and
pa run into tho woods He was
afraid there would be some wimmen
IN the picnic that he kuowed, ana
he couxed us to come into the
woods where he was, and he sand
he would give US dollar apiece,
and not be mad any more, If We
would bring him his pants. We
got his pants, and you ought to see
now they was wrinkled when he put
them on. They looked as though
! they had been :roned with waffle
iruns. We went to the depot and
came home on n freight tram, and
pa succeed all the way III the ca.
boose, and l don't think he has
ruptured any blood vessel. Well,
get off here ut Mitchell's bank.
ard the boy turned the bake and
Jumped off without paying his iare
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