Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-09-22

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"NIe, tooe~ begged Ollie. please
Jack.
oh, no. said Jack and NO. indeed,'
! laughed Ted You would be sure 10
talk and scare al the fish. BESIDES,
we've only got one pole that's good for
anything. and we'll have to take turns
fishing ourselves.
So they rushed around like small
whirlwinds TO dig a boxful Of earth
worms, and be sure their one reel was
in working order, and hunt up the Old
dip-net 70 use ia case a very large fish
should be hooked. Then away they
went, and Ollie was left lamenting If
he hadn't had grandma 10 comfort him,
] don't know what he would have done
She gave him a jelly-tart. and he
couldn't cry with his mouth full, you
know; and while he was eating il she
filed a bit Of wire and bent it in the
shape Of a hook, and fastened ii 10 a
piece Of strong Irvine, and tied the
Irvine toone Of her round curtain-sticks
There, said She, now you can 90
over to the pasture brook and fish to
up a lunch for him, too, Just like the /
one she had given Jack and Ted. only
not quite so much of it. Isn't a grand
ma worth having?
Ollie twinkled off the last tear in
hurry "Oh, thank you, gramma." he
cried. He never forgot that, am glad
to say, no matter how full of delight he
was. He didn't dig earthworms for
bait, because he could not Bear 10 hurt
them; but grandma cut bit of salt
pork for him and put drop of anise- +
oil on il, which she said would be sure
TO catch fish if there was one in the .
brook Privately. | think she was
afraid there wasn't, but She wouldn't
say so
Ollie began TO be afraid so, too, after
awhile. He went away mp across the
pasture TO the woods and followed the
brook down, just as grandma had told
him, fishing all the way and stopping
nov and then to eat mite or his lunch,
because he didn't want to take time to
eat it all at once.
Il was a very small brook, so narrow
in the places where the water was deep
est that he could almost step across it.
last above the road bridge it broaden
out quite respectfully. and then dripped
with musical tinltle over a great.
sunl1en log and formed a pool under
the edge of the bridge, which was made
Of logs too, and covered with earth.
II was exactly the place for trout If
Ollie had but known il; as it was, he
went down on his knees at one end Of
the grassy log and dropped his hook
without thought of what might hap
pen.
There was fash through the
shadowy water and a sudden. SHARP
tug at his line that took Ollie's breath
away. He had never caught fish in
all his life, but he new what it meant.
His cap fell off and hoated away under
the bridge and out on the other side,
but he didn't mind that. He pulled
manfully at his end Of the line until
ont upon the bank came a big. flapping
trout Such beauty, with silvery
spotted sides flashing in the sunshine,
Ollie bounced upon his prize and, for
getting his cap, away he scampered &c
the house, almost beside himself with
excitement and JOY.
80 gramma!" he cried, I've got one
I've got one. O gramma, amt you glad
and 'stonished?"
1t Is safe to say Grandma Lane was
astonished, she had no more idea that
Ollie would catch a fish than that he
could fly And she was glad enough
As for Grandpa Lane, he said it was
worth dollar, and got out the big
steelyards
Thirteen ounces and almost quar-.
ter, he announced, presently u de.
clare, | didn't know there was srrh a
fish in the brook. TIN be wa"'t telling
the folks about when Won go home.
1t was worth telling Jack and Ted
about, Ollie thought his heart brimful
Of pride cui y They came up the
lane r. soon, with disappointed
face. ,...,. 4 string of red-6ns.
lack hooked one trout" Ted ex- +,
claimed, but it got off before he could
reel it in. I'm awful sorry we didn't
get one for Mrs. jerks little girl
grandma. But we had nice time. and
we wished we'd let Ollie-why why"
Two more surprised boys than Jack
kitchen table, you never saw.
Ollie capered around the room like a
wild thing Il caughrit, Icaught it,
he cried. In the brook, with gram
mas curtain-stick, And there's d lot
more, shouldn't wonder"
But though they all went down to
find oilie's cap together. and fshed I'M
til almost dark, and though they went .
fishing in the brook every day for the
next week. there was never So much as {
another njbhle
4 think " Ollie remarked confidential f
y rs grandma, that my trout must
have come there 'spressly SO l could .
catch it for denny jerks
And Grandma Lane had the very same {
opinion Ada Carleton Stoddard in
Youth $ Iompauion
interesting from the start
II don't Hike this rs muchas thought
would said Harry. looking up from