Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1889-10-03
A KISS FOR A DOLLAR.
An Anglers Experience While Trouting
ON q Michigan Stream

An Anglers Experience While Trouting
ON n Michigan Stream.
A contributor to The Forest and Stream
gives this charming account Of an angling
episode on Michigan trout stream:
As | wound my joy inspiring way along
the river ! was ever alert for the radiant
trout, and enticed many a one to my quiver-
ing bait and TO my creel. | knew my com
panioi would hang his banner on high if he
badly defeated me, and therefore worked
with night and main, passing no tempting
spot ulfished that | thought contained the
quarry As | waded around sloping bank
thick With sedate alders INV ewes were glad
dened with sight of a little boy and girl
sitting on a log under the shade of a spread
ing oak. The glrl had bright and winsome
look, with curls OF gold and cheeks like ap
pies, and wore "A straw hat aslant on her vel
low hair that gave her decidedly a prepos
seSsinl, appearance. Her barefooted brother
with lis bright eyes sunny face and rustic
costui ie was as picturesque as a shepherd
boy The little people 80 attracted me that
wadsd ashore 10 have chat with them
The boy eyed me keenly "a | approached and
asked if had many trout, and if | were fish
ing " IN a fly | opened my basket and let
the children take peep at the golden hued
fish, and then confessed to the boy that was
one of those contemplate bait fishermen He
then told me that he had some fifteen trout
In his fish box, which was fastened in the
water near by, and that he wished TO dispose
)t them, hut The said that he always had pocd
uck in selling To bait fishermen, as they al
ways caught enough TO satisfy themselves.
You don't sell to fly flshermenf' | in
Iuired
''Oh yes sir, quite frequently"
And why to them,"
Because mt this season of the year they
hardly catch any"
''I'In surprised that these high art anglers
woul, buy trout
They do, though, but they always tell me
not "a give 'em away"
"Du youf
IL can't, for | don't live in town. NV
house is down by the bridge"
DO you ever sell any TO bait fshermenr'
Very seldom; they always have EN-"
Here the little girl quickly spoke up and
said: Last season he sold lot TO one"
III NV was thatr
Nv hy," you see" said the lad there were
two men trouting here The first one that
passed. was fishing 50 hard that he paid no at
tention at all to US, only saying, Good morn
ing, Children and then hurried on. After a
while his partner came along, and as he
paSseil close to me | asked him ii he didn't
want to buy some trout At this he smiled
and came ashore ana inquired how many |
had | told him twenty-five He laughed
right out and said, Get 'em quickr pulled
my box ashore, and as ! put them in his
basket he smiled and laughed all over. say
ing, IN snow hIm under nowv didn't know
whnt that meant then, but papa explained
that Inc wanted to beat his partner He never
usl-AE tha prira AZ hpt, ho l.
IN his pockets he drew out some money and
gave me 50, and then tossed one to sis. say
ing, That's for you, little bright eyes, aud
then ne was gone like a flash, fishing as he
went OH he was such n handsome man.
He tai gold chain around his neck and
some hing on his little finger that sparkled
like The sun. Papa said it was a diamond
and lsarned down at the tavern that he was
a big banker from the east. Sis and will
never forget him"
Did you ascertain whether he showed his
partI er under1"
''On, yes; papa learned all about it. and
said ne beat him badly. and plagued him
great deal about it"
was perfectly delighted with the conver
sation had with the children, but as | was
not in for the purchase of trout | told the
little girl If she would give me a kiss | would
give lST u upHdF. Inc little DONs eyes were
all a sparkle at this, and, turning quickly To
his Ii tie sister, he said:
- :. kiss the nice gentleman
Ths little elfin then cheerfully got upon the
outer end of the log near the water and "a
she removed her straw hat her bright curls
gracefully flowed over her nut brown shoul
ders, and the sun which struck this part of the
oaken trunk bnthed her head i'm crimson and
gold, thus giving her the appearance of a
''ittle fairy queen that gambol'd on heaths
and ianced on ey'ry green" As presented
my hronzed and furrowed face, with heavy
beard and thick mustache, she bent forward,
and her sweet, little innocent lips gave me
hearty kiss that priced more highly than if
it hai been from the rosy mouth of maiden
royn.
II ere's your dollar, sis, and one for YOU
bub, suiting action to word and then bade
then hasty good-by, and, wading out into
the cold water, proceeded with my fishing
lest ! also should be showed under" turned
and ooked back at them before passed the
bend Just ahead of ME that would shut them
out rom my view, and there beheld them
both standing on the log intently watching
me, With the little girl gracefully waiting
kisses, to which | sincerely responded, and
then the little romance of the stream was
endel, but not forgotten, for it will always
live n delightful memory one of my raresi
pleasures of trouting on the Boardman.