The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1885-01-18

4 Winter Psslias that the Average riks's
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DINaMAN's FERRY, Pa, Jan. l3.-Six mon
stood In . row on the Ice on Shafts Fond.
Shafts Pond II LOO feet above tide. and .
comfortable distance. by balloon. from Ding
mans. Tho leo on which the men stood wss .
foot thick. The wind came out OF tho north
and swept down over 1t faster than fifty miles
an hour and sharper than q serpents tooth.
The mon were stationed about ton feet apart.
Each man was bent over q round hole In the
Ice. and hold one end OF a stick In his hand.
the other end being thrust down through
the hole Into the winter. Then q seventh man
picked up an axe. ana walked away few feet
In range With the solemnly curved mon and
the round holes. He whackcd the leo with the
aIs until everything cracked. The next second
the man who gAxed In the hoio nearest
TO the ice-thumpcr straishtsued up with
. jerk. and ranked the stick out OF the
hole. There was nsh on the othor end Of 1t.
This he chueked on the ice. und then plunged
his stick down into the hole again. In the
mean time other men In the limo had likewise
Strengthened Ut and yanked their sticks out Of
the holes Some brought out nsh and some
didn't But up and down the men kept bob
bling. the. motion being maintained 40 per-
ststently that hero WAS fish constantly In the
mr. W Ss 9S & ss As % r:
mon with tho sticks yankcd iali out Of tho
holes. and when he got tired and shouldsred
up. laid their sticks on the ice. and drank out Of
abottle. After. each mar. drank from the bottle
Then they shovelled the fish all up in pile
on the leo. Tho nsh would have filled a bushel
With hrSo large ed s
S SI Sl,s q tho hooks; Tho hSSks pit q ihs
not good to- eat In the summer time, because
81 rs tendency to run to oil as soon az u Is
the sucker hartisns up like country road on a
f mssty. night and laying aside little
msss o. not ns.' Sas sSSss i for ne fred
Eiek Sd, PORK on the breakfast table
Of the ponds in this vicinity men go out like
They do It ostensiby for pas!imo, They really
you had happened 70 bs on the pond whom
these six mon were lifting. suckers out Of tho
Re was t"knS Sreathins spell and II, asked him
ad3abt that 30 would have said:
Then liz would in AL probability have said
no more until you had got tired Of waiting for
peculiaritias q chu9eing, for suckers wore.
Then m he would have remarked:
suckers is Tint suckers is the only things hats
shnsYsedi We don't chps no plcker'T an We
fur s SUNDAY tho Sass
seyer VIII ks,more.s uddent than the suck ers is.
an ye mowt list e. vel Try to run gang o
81 or to s' ,Sss
~ habit much sn' more ss' 81. I g y .sss ssi
s: On o TENN sSSo C sofs
holes In the ice the picker'i an bass is some 'rs
IN the vicinity Of mile away: Thur about q
q re S ,sn asr 1 "n
got to do is TO list snatch yer stick up'ards. an
the chances IL that vel grips sucker an meb-
heap np ton bnshel o suckers in the course OF
2 DAYS chuggin'., then 1t aIn't a good day for
W.. in the hills an tracked Wildcats" .0n'
HhugWyin VIM Tor suckers Is an ancient recrsa.
sucker chuGcer Of ,nsy ss,i.d dowp o on th s
rock-rihbed hills OF Pike county there were no
Ss1s nor S SS nor rerr In the
The former were worthless in the summer. ana
the latter buried themselves in the mud in the
during the season when they were good to eat
and SO the pioneers were hard IN for fish,. Ono
cut hole in tho e" on pond to ID draw ' Waisr
up in a bucket with rope to it While he was
osknE DOWN into The mole some one else
ing every 'chns" q tho axe suckers hurried
tho settler. He tied some hooks on the end OF n
stick and stuck them down In the note. When the
axe came down and inrred tho ice along came
the suckers. and he lerkeh outtwo big ones the
first time he tried. That put an end TO the
peace and quiet that had always reigned in the
sucker family during tho writer. Every pond
in the whole region was filed with chugging
parties in less than no time. and the cabins OF
the settlers became sayory with the smell OF
fried suckers. Their descendants may have
degenerated in many things. but when il comes
to un-nnd-up scientific chugging for suckers
thny are there every tiIas.
Thur II heap o fun in chug-in." tho gem
t'eman referred to above might say, II he were
approached on the subject, and tho colder the
weather the better we ike the chug Some
folks takes gallon dimmiiohn with EN- but
never Erumble If thnz onlyn half gallon along