The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1888-08-10
BILL NIE ANGLES AGAIN.
He Goes Out on the salt Water and
Tempts the Bounding Bass.

water fish. Fresh,water fish are caught
in fresh water and saltwater fish are
taken in salt water. 1t is from this
that each derives his or her name, us
the case may be. Up to about the
middle of this month the Goldfish is LA
bic to bite if imposed upon. He then
ceases to do so until July, when he
again resumes. The cod, when taken,
from the water, is not ready for market,
rs l had supposed, but is in d very diff
ferent condition from that in which
we find him at the inland grocery
store.
Shortly after the cod is caught plain
men from the common walks of life re-
move his works, after which he is salt
ed and pressed in a large book like an
autumn leaf. After this he enters the
home life of the American citizen and
fills the air full of ~redolence.
l went out fishing the other day with
a parry Of ladies and gentlemen on board
the Bay Ridge steamer. Between 1000
and :, 5000 sea bass were taken in a few
hours off the Jersey coast, though,
strictly speaking, the bass zee not
taken off the coast, but out of the wet.
The purser of the Bay Ridge, who is
very proud of his boat. said that she
looked very well now, but not so neat
as he liked to see her, because people
who caught fish mussed a boat up so.
Then every body felt ashamed of hav-
ing caught fish and Uttered up the
boat, except the author of these lines.
l was going to say that l did not u
up his boat with anything in the fish
line, but l did catch something out of
the lotion of the sea that the captain
said he would call a fish il it would
make me feel any better.
About II o'clock A. NJ, as we were
standing off Sandy Hook and the pur-
veyor of beer on the main deck, while
in -steenth latitude and not far from
the First National Cholera Banks. l
had a bite. With rare foresight [ had
not only wrapped the cold and pulse
less features of the clam about my
hook in a seductive manner, but l had
given it a dash of red pepper and
a squirt of lemon juice, for fish are not
utterly without those finer feelings
which come to all of us, aad l didn't
know but ] would catch a mermaid.
Nothing would have pleased me more
than coming up Park row about 6
o'clock with a young and blithsome
mermaid hanging by a willow stringer
over my shoulder.
But it was something else that l got.
| called the attention of everyone to the
fact that | had a bite. This heightened
the effect when | pulled to the surface
of the water a speckled, warty, red
eyed, feverish fancy. 1t was the kind
of curiosity that anybody can catch
without going out of New York Harbor.
if he will use the right kind of whisky.
Most everybody seemed pleased when
1 pulled the nightmare out Of the wa
ter. 1t is singular how little it takes to
amuse some people.
I was encored, but 1 could only bow
my thanks to the admiring audience
that threw clans at me and seemed
real pleased. Everybody else seemed
to enjoy it better than / did. That was
because everybody else didn't have to
reach down among the bronchial tubes
Of that marine toad and get the hook
out.
At first / put my foot on him and
tried to secure the hook, but he felt SO
queer under my foot and made such a
disagreeable noise when l stood on
him that / left the hook hanging in
the roof of his mouth and bought an
other one.
I did not fish much more, though.
Once / tried 80 catch something by
batting my hook with the eye Of 4
Wall street man who was fishing Just
below me, but 1 did not succeed. Then,
as the ship began to roll. / went inside
where I could be alone.
/ was alono about an hour, commu-
ming with myself and Bringing up
that I had forgotten. But I win
not writp out for ghc World d doscrip-
ton Of what was so closely identified
With myself, yet Of SO little interest to
the world at large. Every man has
concealed within himself much that he
does not show 70 his fellowsman, but l