The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-08-09
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 Some travsling men vsxe tsIkinr over tAeir sxperieacss in the plAahanson kouss one evening laS< wesk when the suh,ect turned upon 6sAing, and eacA rave Sparta fsllows gct him b ec out treut 6sAing. by telling him thaf ahcss eight miles out there was stream which vas alive with szout and boz he hised i've Y team and took the boys witk him, and how shsy pat him en to the stream and told him to follow is down about toar miles where they woaid mes, him al bridge wisA the wagon. He broke brush all the tosanoen, ect nired in tho mud, had COW chass him up tree, and faxm- eu drove him out of kelds with pitch 6cskk aud finally he arrived at the bridge. witAoas savsas hsse exceps from nos qaitoes. and tound the waecn gare. and he waiked to SparsA and found that the ooys had come homo, suppceinN he had gos tc the bridge ahead q them. and got ride 70 town witA farmer. He swose they played is cn him cu purpose. and said h cost him tvslvs dollals.
 Aaosher told d Airing . man to row him on Lake WinnsbAeo. b troll, and how he txolled all tho alAosuoen and never gos bise, and beine nsas~ ~sisAssd never found out unul he sul hack su the heaA that Ais oArsman roued sisAt around in one place all the time, wkesu thsre vas 70 uisd and ne 6sh. beisr soc lasy to % out vAese the vind blsw and whae hsh would hiee. OtAsu told cf spearias saekers, bobhiag fsr eat-6sA on ths Mississippi river, until finally it came the tura of the man who sells platform scales, and he open4d up. Said he
 boys. l have caught something that
 10 live man ever caught"
 "lf there i anything we never have caught we want to hear of it," said the
 boo, and shoe man.
 Well, you shall hear about t." sad the scale man, lighting . cigar. "l was trolling sos bass in lake ID n.ssh, ~ish
 . man rowing the boat tus ms. We had
 noticed l0oa swimming around and div
 jag, end keeping watch ot us, and was
 wishing had sife. vhen the loon dove.
 and gos about half aslsep when all ot .
 sudden fsls yAnk on my line that
 nearly pulled me out of tAa boat. IL was Inst as thoagh Acrss vas hiseked on the
 hook and ruaning asay. The oAssmAn
 turned pale and cad had gos . mus.
 callonge. grahbed ths lins and began
 so rel ia, whea thsss was the swtullsss
 palling anA 6ghsiag svss Ssis On Ssh
 Inc. Pssasy suop lhe ioen cana te the susiaes vilI the Aesk ia Ais mouth. nsw
 a few yards, got steaglsd and dove again
 and besas so salm oa Then we saw
 that the looa had bsea swimming around and had seen the minnow on my hook.
 and swallowed l. ls wAs . neu sxpssi-
 ence. snd resled him in ua,il he goi
 near the boat, when the oarman vas going 10 kill the bird, but 1 insisted on
 keeping him alive. to give to some his-
 tofical socicty as the only loon ever
 caught with . hook and line. He came near swampsng us, getting him in the
 boat, and fought Us atter he was "a. We
 sai on ham and held his wings 10 keep , him from beating our hands black and
 blue ,and he was mofc trouble than white elephant drawn in lottery. The hook
 was % far down hls neck wc couldnt
 ges 1t out without killing him, e 1 GU,
 the line near his ball. and put on another
 hook. The boatman put the loon dosn
 in the bow of the boat under the end seat, and piled costs and the lunch basket on him, but he kept hght,ne, } pinched the oarsman ln the pants with } his long sharp bill, and haaliy hs sosked the eoass ~d oi his body and les out o } the boat aad dove under water, aud when he came up he was thirty rods away shaking his head snd trying do get tho |, hook out He vent down again. and . came up larhss of, and looked around at ss and squea'ed as though hs vas ex. pressing his opinion Of man that would } deceive . poos bird that vsy. We losa sight oi the loon. and were sorry to losl : him, but never think of that expsstence without laaghiag ishs out, whsn thinI of the disgas,sd lock about the looa'I eyes when he vas pslIsd up to the boat and how he seemed to say, Yos ihint } you are dasnsd smart, dos't you z whsG ) hs 70, ioose and hid us goodbye |. suppose . man mighss Ssh lifetime and not catch another iooa."
 The boys inoksd af each other with 4 , sort of disbelief in 7he story, though | vas true, and when . Chicago grocery man started in so tell about catching ss ostrich on a pan hook once they ali ad , Iourned to the cigss stand where ths cigar man vas telling about catching th, ague. Evevshing is catching among th.
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