Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1889-07-24
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Among the favos1te resorts ~.
glers of New York h GsesnWu 80.
This bcantiful sheet u watet I'm
in New York and partly iii Ne9 eey,
and it attracts during thu ou1ll1laSI the
famous anglers Of this section Z 1oun-
try. Coming down on the tsS1Ss The
other day a Newark man told erious
story, which shows that even hQn6s MAJ
b. blamed for things q whiohi mn not
guilty. Seventeen years ~, 6nt11 my
acQ~uaintance, .since I have tonettsd !
drop 81 liquor and / have MOI ~ re-
hottest idea Of ever touching Is tain,
am not ! prohibitionist and ny bsti-
hence is due to sonne rather po6aliaf
circumstances. ! wss spending week
ut the lake. stopping 1T the club puse
Of the Greenwood I1ake Assooin4ion,
The weather was miserable. - II
rained most Of the time. FinAlIy We
had : bright day, but the fish dtd not
bite very we'll. Sitting on the pcftico
Of the club house that evening was
watching the feeting clopds aad the
usually bright moon, which appeasUd TO
be about first quarter. Ny gnjde was
lounging near me and / was anxioas for
sport. / called to him TO ret ready and
started ACROSS the lake. / CIT for
awhile, but IS the bass did not ydse /
took to trolling. I never had lfvelier
sport and / whiled away q cOupfe Of
hours 10 the most intense eni0ynent.
such y only m enthusiastic aag3or .
have. I could mot let out twenty feet
OF line without catching 4 bronxoback,
I considered this rather curious, but was
thunderstruck when / looked ~ 10 the
moon and found it in the glory of full
ness. Was ! dreamingf tn noon
certainly was ct first quarter ah1Gt twc
hours ago and the Ash were not biting
ct al. Nobody has over yet explained
the vagAries Of the bass, and 20 I
thought little Of this. But the moon
perplexed me. Naturally ! blamed it on
the bottle. / had purchased ! quantity
Of very fine old whisky and had q hottie
Of it with me-. The fish lost al their
interest for me and my guide wondered
why sat there musing. The more /
thought Of it the more I wa worried.
Finally I handed my guide the bottle
aud asked him to imbibe / have never
in my life met a guide, no matter
how limited his knowledge Of the
habitat Of, fish, who Wa not o good
judge of whisky. The guide took i
hearty pull and smacked his lips, then
he declared that it was the finest whisky
that he had ever drunk. / called his
attention to the moor and he remarked
that he had noticed it late on the pre-
vious evening and had spoken of its
brightness. He said that the moon had
reached its full on the previous night.
1 concluded that something similar had
happened to me about twenty-four hours
later. | was all broke up and returned
to the club house. / went to bed with
out saying . word to anybody, wonder
ing what vagaries my mind would con-
jure up next. Every few minutes /
out Of the window, but the moon
remained exasperatingly full. / did not
dare to say q word to anybody for fear
OF being put into q strait-iacket, but I
solemnly declared that never would /
touch another drop. / went home by
the morning train considerably worried.
When | arrived in the city | bought .
paper to divert my mind from the moon,
which l was continually seeing before
me in all stages Of fullness and empti-
ness. The first thing my eyes
tered where the headlines, Last Nights
Eclipse Of the Moon-yaluable Astron-
omical Observations The people on
the ferry-boat probably wondered why
I looked 20 happy, but TO this day / have