Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1890-07-22
TO HIM WHO WATTS.
story of Fool Club, an AerObatic Eel
and Spindle ShanIxed Crane.

bBOfJ OF q FOOL GnuDt an AeFODAGtC Eel
and Spindle shanked Crane.
Judge Hollis, of Woodruff, is not wha.
might be called a. expert all asound sports
man, hut he can fish little and hunt a
little Whether he can do little in that
other accomplishment which it is popular
ly believed all hunters and fishers possess
to a greater or less degree and can embel-
lish little, the following account which
he gives of a recent exploit of his is the
best test. He went fishing the other day.
He wasn't out after any particular kind of
fish, but simply wanted fish. He hooked
big club after fishing until he was get
ting tired, but lost it in raising it from the
water. He spat on his hook and quickly
threw in again, right where he lost the
club
"From what | know about these fool
chubs,' said the judge, that one will
take the hook right away again.
The bait had hardly sunk when the
Judge got another bite. It gave stiff tug
and started away. The judge hooked his
fish.
Amy club that fools with my hook
twice, he remarked, sis as good as sizzling
in my frying pan"
The Judge yanked the fish out of the
water. 1t wasn't a club. 1t was two
pound eel.
"You don't catch me fooling with no
leather headed clubs when can get eels,"
said the judge, as he pulled his wriggling,
squirming prize toward him. He lifted
the eel out of the water and made grab
for it's neck and got it. Before the judge
could exactly figure out how it was done
the eel had climbed up his arm, twined
itself moment around his neck, and then
went down his left leg as if the leg were
spiral stairs. The next thing the judge
knew the eel had scooted back to the river
and disappeared in it, leaving the judge
with his pole and part of the line, but no
hook.
THAT settles It'll" he exclaimed. "I'm
after fish, not cells When want anything
Of that kind I'll go and spear snakes"
Then, the judge says, he started home
hot and Disguised. On his way he discov.
cred big, long legged crane standing in
the water watching for fish,
81 guess I'll go home and get my gum"
said the judge, "and kill TINT crane"
He hurried home and got his gun. When
he came back the crane was still on the
watch for fish. The judge sneaked up to
within easy range and blazed away. The
crane looked around surprised and then
flew off languidly. The judge looked after
the crane until it disappeared. Then he
examined his gun.
"This don't seem to be my day for sport"
said he, and went home He wasn't en-
tirely satisfied with the way things had
gone, though, and that night he thought
he might even things up by putting out a
set line in the stream, and let it try its luck
for him during the dim and Silly watches
of the night. So he put out his set line and
went home and to bed. Bright and early
next morning he went out to see what the
set line had done for him. When he got
to the spot he saw crane standing in the
water right where his line was
As the judge approached the crane rose
to fly away, but something pulled it back
again into the water with q jerk. The
Judge was too much surprised to speak,
and he hardly knew what to do Finally
he made up his mind to capture the crane,
which he did. Then he found that it had
swallowed one of his hooks and more than
half uf the line it was tied to. This natur-
ally called for little further investiga.
ton, which resulted in the discovery that
the reason the crane had swallowed the
hook was BECAUSE there was II two pound
eel fast to it. The judge says that his sur
prise was increased when he saw in the
cells jaw the hook and piece of line he had
lost the day before, but when he found that
the reason the eel had taken the set line
hook that subsequently led the crane to
take the eel was because one pound club
had gobbled the hook first, he just sat
down and famed himself with his hat to
keep from fainting,
Because there was the fool club that
got away from me the day before" says
the judge, land there was the acrobatic
eel that had climbed all over me and then
stole my hook, and there was the spindle
shanked crane that jumped out of the way
of my gun, all caught on one hook If all
don't come to him who waits, then I'd like
to know why."-Bath Cor. New York Sun.