The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-05-27
FISHING IN NEW JERSEY.
I Am Lured to Applejack Land and
Fed Upon Pie
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New York, May 25-I had never been
fishing and didn't know a trout from :;
Bologna sausage, except by the t1ste, and
told Billy Button so, when he asked me t.
go with him.
"Never mind, Howdy," said he, you'll
be useful when we come back
] didn't know what he meant by that
and he would give no explanation excep
that he had read some Of my stories.
We went down into New Jersey. 1t wa
a beautiful day, and Billy was glad of
b. cause | could carry everything withou
getti e overheat,d. Billy is very consid
crate Of my feelings. Oh, how balmy
WAS. The trees were green, and he mo e.
| quitoes, too, were not yet ripe. We unt
| a little babbling brooklet. It passed mo /
eStly through the meadows quite unnoticed
| because it was water, whereas, if it haG
been apple-jack the banks wouli have been
| uhronged-at least that was the way local
| philosopher acco nted for the facts
| Buy Button was great fisherman as he
told me many times before we gan o
! fish, and once o. twice afterward. We pro
ceedei along the banks of the brooklet. Ii
was much damper on the banks than it was
in the middle Of the stream, but Billy did
not mind IL because he had a nice pair OF
| rubber boots on that fastened almos I'D t
| his neck. bad an old pair which Billy hal
| kindly loaned me, and though as | haveSaid
| the banks were wetter than the sire m il j.
mela choly fact that e iusides of BLY,
! old boots were wetter thar either The
had an attraction for moisture aud could
hear it rushing in with dull, sickening siz-
gle every time lifted up my feet.
Although the stream was IN the main so
| shallow lat an Amerlcan-built trout could
not sail in it with his center board dow
! there were places here and there where ii
as dee or. / know, for l stepped into
them. Billy said that the trout lived i
! these pools | did not doubt his word, but t
| seemed strange to me that a trout VIII
could have had the whole Allan ic Ocean to
swim in, should choose to live in place
where he could t turn around without
! knocking something down; but Billy Is a
| ishermal and he ought TO know.
We wandered up the stream and Billy
cast his lines into the quiet pools, whe /
didn't fall into them Uefcre he got 4 chance.
| | usually cast my line, TOO, but it went into
the branch of a tree. and then l crawled
out and rescued it at the peril of my life
| But caught as much as Billy did; in fact
! caught more, for he coul Int even hook
suags. He began to explain to me hat Ger
! tain atmo, pheric conditions, combined with
the absence of fish, could foil the efforts of
the most skillful angler.
In the course Of few hours Of arduou
toll we arrived at little clearing on the
| edge of hich was an unpreposssssing rus
TIC just adding good sized trout to fat
| string. Billy loo ed at the string aud greet
ed the aged fisherman revere tly
$50 it was you boys, that heard hind
! me. was it!' he sand. "Wel, we'll; you
didn't catch nothia' | see. r exon | must
have pulled the trout outn their hoi-s jus
ahead Of you"
1t was painfully evident that he had, and
| Biily's face showed how deeply delighted ne
was at the idea.
"You z IN up any furtherN asked Billy.
"No. | amt goin' 10 further" said the
Jerseyman.
We continued en- our way 1t was just as
as much fun up there as 1t had been lower
| down, and no more. We didn't get a bits
| Then we came back again, and | fell into
all the holes | had discovered on my wa
10, and several new ones About 3:3) p.
M we reached a farm house BY this tim
we were both hungry enough 10 eat any
thing we could bite for had lost our lunch
| early in the day The owner Of the ia N
house presented bis card. 1t WAS engraved
on the barn door in yellow paint:
James NJ. Shakes.
Ibid not know whether the middle initial
stood for mosquitoes or malaria, but ]
I
CURED for Mr.. Snakes His son Jimmie
came out, and presently the old man APP
peared. He aas the same venerable gen
tleman who hal pulled all tae trout OF the
! brooR ahead Of Us.
"Ch; got back a'ready," said he cheer
fully.
"How long did you think we'd ber' said
Billy.
"Wen. II you'd kept on up stream till you
caught anything you might not have got
bhcA AN next week, SAID Mr.. Shakes, "Oe-
cause there amt no trout further up than
" ers / stopped, aud amt never been any.
Couldn't say why, uut its fact
"Nhy didn't you tell US 80, you old heath
er said !.
Il clean forgot it, he replied, placiily
be We hungry
1--WE could eat hAy'
"WeI. hslnt got none, bnt motner's
baked "a bic. We've only got this ono in the
! house. bat l'l Jet ye have DO To- al. aud then
| jimmy u take yodow totue pond. There's
a trout 10 there that ! cant SO. Lonow, .ut
perhaps you can eaten him.
swell. / should say fJ,' said BUY,
Frightening %. "Just bring out your pie
nnd IA Snow you feN p0iuIs about hsh'
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