Iron County register., 1885-06-25
A BERRY AND FISH STORY.

| a 6EHRY AND FISH SiOHI.
The Laughing Time Which Excited the
Wonder of Two Little Girls.
Two little girls, with checked sun
| bonnets on their heads and tin pals in
their hands, were walking along the
sidewalk of certain town in Mainc.
One was named Lizzie Pulsifer, and the
| other Hannah Cooke. Lizzie was eight
| years old; so was Hannah. I would
| mention the name of the town, but
| they are both women now. with little
girls of their own, and they might not
like to be laughed at. Did 1 tell you it
was spring morning? Well, it was in
early May. When they reached Fred
Starke's house, Fred, who was out in
| the yard, screamed:
| Good morning, girls! where are you
| goingP'
"We're going blueberrying," said
| Hannah.
"Ha! ha, hal" was Fred's reply. 81
hope you II get your pals full. ;, Blue
| berrying! Ha. ha! har'
"Well, / think we SHALL" replied Liz
| zie. 81 know where they used to be
very Thick
You dor' said Fred. 81 hope they
viii be thick noso. You'd better go
| fishing. That's what I'm going to do"
And he turned away, still laughing
| heartily.
When they left Fred the girls walked
along quietly again until they reached
| the railroad.
1--WE shall have to walk along on the
track a little ways" said Hannah; ''but
we can watch for trains"
They walked some time, stepping
! from sleeper to sleeper, until Lizzie saw
| smoke in the distance. Hannah said it
| was train coming, and that they must
hurry off the track as fast as they could.
| So, long before the train arrived, they
had c1imbed..a fence and were in a pretty
pasture on the edge of the woods.
They looked around for blueberries.
They found plenty of lovely pink-and
May-tlowers), and great punches of
purple violets, and white houstonias
with their yellow eyes, and ground nut
| blossoms; and on bushes which looked,
Hannah said, very much like blueberry
bushes, they found pretty white bell
shaped flowers, just tinted with pink,
but they couldn't find any blueberries.
They picked the young checkerberry
leaves which were just peeping out of the
| ground; and at last, getting bolder, they
| strayed little way into the woods and
| gathered some lovely ferns. But not a
blueberry was to be seen.
| "It's Queer" said Hannah. 81 won
| der where the blueberries are / know
this is the place where they used to be
| so thick, cause that's the very stump
| mother climbed over. She couldn't climb
the fence anywhere else. you know,
cause twas so high. But We'll keep
On searching"
Just then the town clock, in the dis
| tance, struck.
| .'Oh, it's eleven o'clock" exclaimed
Hannah, who had counted each stroke
aloud, 'and mother told us to be home
at twelve. We shall have to start,
and we haven't got a single BURBERRY.
| What do you pose made your Aunt
| Sarah laugh so, when 1 asked her if
we could stay till we got our pals
fullp"
| "Idon' know" said Lizzie, thought
| fully; land Fred laughed, too, when we
told him we were going blueberrying.
| What was he laughing ate''
''Oh! l don't know, I'm sure,' said
Hannah; she's always laughing. But
| 1 don't care. We've had good time,
| any way"
| They climbed the fence again, and
| found themselves close to the ditch by
the side of the railroad. The spring
rains had filled it with water. They
could not resist the temptation to take
off their shoes and stockings and wade
in it. They were having the best of
| time of all then, when Lizzie exclaimed:
''Hannie, we might catch some fish.
See! there's one. Let's try
''We haven't any hooks" objected
| Hannah.
'Weil, we might hold our pals and
| catch some;'' and Lizzie held hers
against the running water, and. sure
enough, she caught little one that was
coming down with the current. ''Oh,
Hannie! perhaps we can get enough
to fry for dinner!' she cried.
| She put her fish up on the bank in a
safe place, and then she and Hannah
went to fishing in good earnest.
| 1t was rather slow work after that;
but, when Hannah had caught three
and Lizzie three, they heard the clock
striking twelve.
So, with their bunches of flowers,
ferns and checkerberry leaves. and
their pals of fish, they started for
home. Their dresses were draggled
and spattered with muddy water, and
they carried their shoes in their hands.
| They did not dare to take time to put
| them on, lest the fish could not be fried
| for dinner.
| ''How many blueberries have You
picked?' shouted Fred, who was on the
| lookout for them.
i 1--WE couldn't find the place." said
| Hannah; $50 we thought we'd go fish
! ing, and we've had good luck. Lizzie
caught three and caught three"
''What kind are theyp-troutp''
Yes, think so,' said Hannah, as
she lifted her pail-cover cautiously for
him TO peep in.
| Fred was well acquainted with the
different kinds of fish in the neighbor-
ing streams. but, when he saw Han
nah's three, he gave a roar of laughter.
'Oh, myr he screamed. Trout!