The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-05-10

The Daily Bulletin.
OFFICIAL PAPER OF ALEXANDER COUNTY
ENTERED AT THE CAIRO PosToFFICE FOR
TRANSMISSION THROUGH THE MAILS AT
SECOND CLASS RATES.
Almost Broke the Sabbath.

In city not n thousand miles from
Hartford is a private sportsman's ASSOC
citation, and every year, in August or
September, they have a grand eXcur-
sion to favorite pond, aday's journey
of, and some twelve miles into the for
est, away from any habitation, and
spend some two or three weeks.
One of the number who had been
brought up in the good old puritanic
way to reverence the Sabbath, told the
writer how near he came to fishing Sun.
day. Some of the party spent Satur-
day evening fishing, so as to have a
supply for Sunday. Sunday morning,
my informant says, he arose at break
Of day. All were in their hunks, sound
asleep, and snoring as only tired
sportsmen can. Pulling on his pants
and slippers he went to the boat to see
what success the evening fishermen
had. There were cells and bullheads
lying in the bottom of the boat in abun-
dance. In the stern of the boat was q
fishing pole with the line in the water.
Thinking it was very careless to leave
1t in that way, | began pulling in the
line, when something struck the bait
and ran out with the line at rapid
rate.
What was | to do? You know I
never fish Sunday; but there was pole
and line going overheard unless pull
ed them in. l thought it was right to
save property and landed three
pound pickerel. As the bait was on
the hook | concluded to throw it in
the water and leave it as found it and
say nothing about it. But the bait had
no sooner struck the water than there
was splash, and whirr went the reel
again. Gracious! What next? You
know nothing would tempt me to fish
Sunday; but must save property and
in so doing landed another pickerel as
large as the first.
Il always like to leave borrowed
property where find it, and the line
was thrown in again, and | started
for the shore, when, to my surprise,
the whizzing sound OF the reel painfully
greeted my ear. | FASTENED back just
in time to catch the pole as it was be-
ing drawn overheard. My conscience
rebuked me for going near the boat,
for you know it is strictly against my
principles to fish Sunday; but | must
save the pole, fish or no fish, and in
comes another large pickerel. This
time the bait was taken, and | was
right glad of it, for now could leave
the pole and line where | found them
without any danger of their being lost.
Il fastened back to camp and luck
lily found all asleep and as musical as
when | left Hastily undressing my
self, jumped into my bunk undiscov-
cred. After q time the cook got up
went to the boat and came back with the
pickerel, exclaiming; See here, boys,
how is it that you catch pickerel in the
night2' This aroused the sleepy fish
ermen, and they declared that there
were no pickerel when they left. They
accused the cook of catching then
Sunday. He firmly protested his limo
cence and said: If had just taker
them they would now have been alive.
All this time | was apparently sleep
ing soundly. When got up they were
shown to me as the three largest pick.
erel that had been taken during the
week; but how they came to be in the
boat was mystery The final conclu-
sion was that the greedy fish must
have jumped in the boat to get some
thing to eat, and forgot to jump back
again This to my mind was very
satisfactory explanation.
They were cooked for our breakfast,
but had no appetite for the dainty re-
past All Sunday my conscience was
i'll at ease, and read my bible by the
hour, and don't believe | could tell
whether ] was reading in Genesis or
Revelations-th latter, | think, be-
cause visions of pickerel were before
me all the time. Not chapter could
| read without hearing the whizzing of
the reel, or seeing those yellow bellies
turn up. Now, tell you, that is the
nearest | ever came to fishing Sunday,
and | don't believe anything would
tempt me to get into a boat again Sun
day, except to save some one from
drowning. '-HarJord Times.