The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-11-27

contrasting with the evergreen shrubs.
1t commands a varied and delicious
prospect and has an air of rcposc and
peace.
The little steamer had already its
load, and presently was under way,
putting and coughing on its usual after.
noon trip among the islands. The pas
sengers were silent, and appeared to
take the matter seriously-a sort OF
linen buster congregation of the class
who figure in the homcly dialect
poems. They were chiefly interested
in knowing the names of the success
full people who had built these fantas-
tic dwellings, and who lived on illu-
limitations. Their curiosity was easily
gfatiiiea, for in most cases the owners
had painted their names, and some
times their places of residence, in
staring white letters on conspicuous
rocks. There was also exhibited, for
the benefit of invalids, by means of the
same white paint, here and there the
name of a medicine that is a household
word in this patent-right generation.
so the little steamer sailed, comforted
by these remedies, through the strait
of Safe Nervine, round the bluff Of
Safe Tonic, into the open bay of Safe
Liver Cure. l: was a healing voyage,
and one in which enterprise was so al
lied with beauty that no unitarian
philosopher could raise a question as
to the market value of the latter.
The performance is, indeed, better
than the prospectus. Forthere are not
merely the poetical Thousand Islands;
by actual count there are sixteen hun
dred and ninety-two. The artist and
Miss Lamont were trying to sing a
fine song they discovered in the Tray
eler's Guide, inspired perhaps by that
sentimental ditty, ''The Isles of Greece,
the Isles of Greece beginning:
0 Thousand Isles. O Thousand Isles.
1t secmed to King that a poem might
be constructed more in accordance with
the facts and with the scientific spirit
of the age. Something like this:
80 Sixteen Hundred Ninety.two Isles!
o Islands 1892!
Where the fisher spreads his wiles,
And the muskallongc goes through.
Forever the cottager giids the same
With nightly pyrotechnic flame:
And it's . the Isles!
The lGGs,'
Aside from the pyrotechnics, the
chief occupations of this place are
boating and fishing. Boats abound
sail-boats and steam
launches for excursion parties. The
river consequently presents an ami
mated appearance in the season, and
the prettiest effects are produced by the
white sails dipping about among the
green islands. The favorite boat is a
canoe with a small sail stepped for
ward, which is stcered without center
board or ruddcr, merely by a change
Of position in the boat of the mar who
holds the sheet. While the fishermen
ire here, it would seem that the long,
'naky plckeral is the chief game pur-
sued and caught. But this is not the
,asc when the fishermen return here,
or then it appears that they have been
mainly with muskallongc, and
With bass by the way. No other part
If the country originates so many cX-
fish stories as the Sixteen Hun
'rcd and Ninety-two Islands, and King
lad heard so many of them that he
inspected there must be fish in these
waters. That afternoon. when they
'cturned from %Gananoque, he accosted
IN old fisherman who sat in his boat at
he wharf awaiting a customer.
Il suppose there is fishing here in the
.cason?"
The man glanced up, but deigncd no
'cply to such impertincnce.
Gould you take us where we would
,c likely to get any muskallonge?f
'Likcly?' asked the man. What
10 you suppose am here for"'
II beg your pardon. I'm a stranger
lcre. I'd like to try my hand at Il
nuSkallonge. About how do they run
lere as to size!N"
''Wcll,' said the fisherman, relent-
ng a little, ''that depends upon who
axes you out. If you want a little
port, q take you to it. They are
pretty well this season, or were
week ago"
at is too late?:n
"Well, they are scarccr than they
we're, unless you know where to 60. l
all forty pounds light Tor a muskal-
ongc; fay to seventy is about my
igure. If you amt used TO this kind of
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