The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1886-07-03
TWO FEeT OF TROUT.
The Remarkable Narrative of a Truthful
Man who Went Fishing.

of Williamsport, has been up here
gathering in trout. The other day he
came in with a peculiar, PARKWAY look
in his eyes. He sat down without re.
moving his basket from his shoulder
or taking off his gum boots. He didn'
say word to anybody, but seemed to
be trying to solve some point that puz,
zled him by gazing into vacancy.
''Hallo! Blanch," exclaimed friend,
Skipping him on the back. What
luck to-day?"
The school director withdrew his in.
quiring gaze from vacancy and looked
up at his friend.
'Luck?' said he. singular luck.
I'm here, amt l; and this is you?"
He was assured he was right on both
points.
Then it amt dream" said he,
''and it amt the jim-but no matter.
I'll tell you how it was. fished an
hour and killed one trout. Fact of the
matter is, whatever the fish had been
feeding on, it wasn't yeast. They
didn't rise worth cent. But | killed
one in an hour. 1t was in good condi-
ton, and | haven't the least doubt that
it was all of six inches long. Well, /
got tired and lay down by the side OF
the creek in the shade and went to
sleep. slept half an hour or so, l
guess, and woke up in better humor.
"Tll give EN- another chance said
/. If they don't take in this gang OF
flies like crazy bait, said l, then these
Dents creek trout amt the trout |
think they are
so l tickled the gliding ripples
some more with my cunningly devised
feathers, and tossed them deity here
and there upon creamy foam hecks,
but my single trout was tossed from
side to side in the lonely depths of my
creel for some time before | got a COM
panion for him. In fact, was so long
in getting him a comrade that |
imagined that he had come to life again.
and was Topping with Indignation and
disgust in the basket. BY and by,
though, | landed another one. He was.
may be, a little short of being half
FOUNDER, but he was as plump as a
gosling. | showed him down through
the opening in the creel-lid and tished
on. Well, not to weary you with a
long recital, l managed to get three
more in another hour or SO, and they
were all good ones. Then | couldn 7
get another rise and | gave up in dis
gust l sat down on a moss-grown
rock.
"'Well, said, as 1 wiped my brow
and held it up to the cool breeze that
| 40, tra Hin rrlx, lN,y aud
it, well, said |, I've tished more
than two hours, and | guess I've got
more than two feet of trout Two feet
of trout l mused.
''Then, presently, l thought I'd take
a look at 'em. l unfastened the lid of
the basket, opened it, and looked in.
That gaze was not one second in dura-
ton. If the lid to that basket had been
pulled down by ten horse power
spring it couldn't have gone shut quick
er than Ishut it, and if had been sit
ting on ten-ton dynamite cartridge,
and it had exploded, | don't think I'd
have got up from that rock much soon
er than l did, Why? Because L was
surprised. There wasn't one of thos c
trout to be seen in the basket-not one
But they were there. and instead OF
there being two feet of them there were
four feet and 4 half of them, good meas.
IRE. | fear | am wearying you" said
the school director to his friend, and
he rose to go.
"No, nor said the friend, restrain
ing the angler, and looking ut him
anXiously. There were no trout to be
seen, You say?" continued the friend.
"No trout to be seen. but still they
were there, and instead of aggregating
two feet in length had total of -four
feet and a half! Blanch, old man, ~
said the friend, you're worn out. Let
90 tamper with something
"No," said the school director. "Tm
all right. Those trout were there, but
they were nowhere to be seen. After
awhile recovered from my surprise,
and then opened the lid of the basket,
turned the trout out on the ground, and
never offered to prevent them us they
made their way to the brook and sprang
in. They swan away and | saw them
no more. | 90 home tomorrow"
There was silence for five minutes,
during which the expression on the
school director Trend 5 lace was pam
ful to see. At last the tired angler
said, musingly:
There is no doubt bat what he got
in while was sleeping in the shade ut
the brookside. No doubt ut all. He
Just crawled in the hole in that basket
lid while l slept, and gobbed that lone
some siX-inch trout of mine without a
murmur. Then he laid low while |
tempted the four other denizens of the
pool from their pelucid haunts, and
Just moved them away one by one, as
l passed them in to him, with all their
dewy glitter and matchless SAVIOR on
them. But if any one had told me that
even a four-foot-and-a-half water snake
had such blissful command of impu.
dence. or such persistent and elastic
appetite, I'd Lave set him down rs
| Il.
The school directors friend led him
gently away, and the current rumor is
that they went in and tempered with
something. Dents Creeb (Pa.) Cor. N
y. Sun.
There is danger in some of the
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