The Arkansaw traveler., 1888-03-24
Wrtnssa for TAe .trkaaSaR TrasNIsr FISHING ON PEARL RIVER
BY THOMAS ouLQrIrr,

Turn to map of Mississippi; near the central part of the state you will sea " inston county-Louisville is the county seat.
 Well, creeping slowly by Louis ville, you will observe tiny, serpent like stream--that Is Pearl river. Leaving Winston. it ereps through bog and brush, tween hill and dale, and down hundred sunny valleys to Lake Pontchartrain. and so to the Gulf of Mexico, and Is quite river when 1t reaches salt water.
 On it's way to the sea, however, 1t passes busy little village In south Mississippi called Logtown. Tho pco- pie there live on logs and exist In sawdust. Logs are their meat, drink and wearing apparel, and when they die they return to awdust from whence they literally come.
 They dwell in little houses along the river side, and between their low ly habitations rise great heaps of dust like mountains, and down these saw . dusty wales they wear narrow trails out to the great sawmills where they gain their daily bread.
 Besides logs these people "relish a smack O fish one" in erwhile," as one of them semi i-contidentially informed me, and finding my appetite similarly depraved. he "knocked ofl' one Satur- day morning at the mill and invited me to go up the river with him oil n two days fishing excursion.
 So Lord Munster and went a. fishing.
 Don't let me mislead you. He was not real lord, though very live one. He won tho nickname from the frequency with which he used the exclamation, as the reader will obs serve as we go on with this exciting and amusing tale
 We started early iii the morning taking with us several blankets, u supply of bread, box of matches, n box of crickets for bait, package oi hooks assorted, also bottle of inter- chan eeablc liquid bait and snake bite preventive.
 This last preparation is, we believe, secret composition, but you can perhaps get the recipe for making it from Charlie" on the corner, or some old fisherman.
 "Why not bring a frying pan, Lord and some meatI"
 "You ain't never been a. fishing be- fore?" he queried.
 "Not on Saturday-to stay two days"
 "Well, wanter show you some thing worth learnin' can take \ fish and fire and make dish fit for the governor to eat. Pm In hurry now to fix you up a nice roast trout or mudcat for supper"
 Supper, he said
 Alas, itsalways the unexpected that happens when you go a-flshing with liquid bait in tine boat.
 We pulled heavily up stream until Logtown was five miles below us, then arranged our tackle and went to work, and soon secured some nice fish.
 "Splendid !" said Lord. "Let's dine"
 We went ashore and built fire he roasted our fish beautifully, wrapped in wet newspaper in the coaIs, just as his cracker brother roasts 'taters in Georgia, and and we turned to to eat them.
 Salt.
 We had brought none with us.
 "Oh, Lord '" cried Munster. "Well, we must do the best we can.
 After dinner Lord walked across the swamp to planters house and secured some salt, and we went on our way rejoicing.
 "Scveral miles further tip the stream we came to Lords favorite fishing ground, where we had excellent luck for short time, until our bait box of crickets fell into the water with a splash and disappeared.
 Lord Lord .' cried Munster, "what will we do?"
 "It is nearly snndown; let us camp for the night and try our luck again o-morrow," 1 suggested.
 Munster turned the prov of the boat to the shore, and was pulling with all his strength at the oars, when we ran upon su bmerged log. Our prow glided over 1t, of course, and the boat going swiftly, struck and grated over it until the brow was high in the air and the stern down to the WA ter's edge.
 Lord, Lord :" said Munster, trying to back our craft, "I never had such luck in my"
 The next moment he was splitting mud and water and "lords" promiscn- ously out of his mouth, and was ciinging to the log that had wrecked us and thinking uneasily of alligators, of which those waters are full. se- cured our bread as 1t drifted by, while Lord righted the boat and rescued our blankets.