Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1892-09-08
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straight OIL.
"Me, too?" begged Ollie 'Please
Jack"
"oh, nor said Jack, and "No indeedw
laughed Ted. "You would be sure to
talk ana scare all the fish. Besides,
we've only got one pole that's good for
anything, and well have TO take turns
fishing ourselves" H
So they rushed around like small
whirlwinds to dig boxful of earth
worms, and be sure their one reel was
in working order, and hunt up the old
dip-net to use in case a very large fish
should be hooked. Then away they
went, and Ollie was left lamenting II
he hadn't had grandma to comfort him,
/ don't know what he would have done.
She gave him jelly-tart, and he
couldn't cry with his mouth full, You
know; and while he was eating 1t she
filed bit of wire and bent it in tho
shape of hook and fastened it to
piece of strong Irvine. and tied the
Irvine to one of her round curtain-sticks.
"There." said she, 'now you can go
over to the pasture brook and fish to
your hearts content, dearie." She put
up n lunch for him, too, just like the
one she had given Jack and Ted, only
not quite so much Of it. Isn't grand
ma worth having?
Ollie twinliled off the last tear in a
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 to hurt
them; but grandma cut bit of salt
pork for him and put drop of anise-
oil on it, 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 up across the
pasture to the woods, and followed the
brook down, just as grandma had told
him, fishing all the way and stopping
now and then to eat mite of his lunch,
because he didn't want to take time to
eat it all at once.
1t was very small brook, so narrow
in the places where the water was deep
est that he could almost step across it
just above the road-bridge it broaden
out quite respectfully and then dripped
with musical tinl1le over great,
sunlzen log, and formed pool under
the edge of the bridge, which was made
of logs, too, and covered with earth
1t was exactly the place for trout, il
Ollie had but known it; as it was he
went down on his knees at one end OF
the grassy log, and dropped his hook
without a thought of what might hap
pen.
There was flash through the
shadowy water, and sudden, sharp
tug at his line that took Ollie's breath
away. He had never caught a fish in
all his life, but he new what it meant
His cap fell off and floated 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
out upon the bank came big, happing
trout. Such beauty, with silvery
spotted sides flashing in the sunshine,
Ollie bounced upon his prize and for
getting his cap, away he scampered to
the house, almost beside himself with
excitement and joy.
80 gramma!" he cried, 'I've got onel
I've got one! 0 gramma, amt you glad
and 'stonished?"
1t is safe to say Grandma Lane was
astonished, she had no more idea that
Ollie would catch fish than that ho
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. 81 de-
clare, didn't know there was such a
fish in the brook. It'll be worth telling
the folks about when you go home"
1t was worth telling Jack and Ted
about, Ollie thought, his heart brimful
of pride and joy. They came up the
lane pretty soon, with disappointed
faces and string of redfns
"Jack hooked one trout Ted ex
claimed, "but it got off before he coult
reel it in. I'm awful sorry we didn''
, get one for Mrs. jerks little girl
) grandma. But we had nice time, ant
we wished we'd let Ollie-why, why
Two more surprised boys than Jacl
and Ted, at sight of that trout on thu
kitchen table, you never saw.
Ollie capered around the room like {
wild thing. 81 caught it. | caught IT,.
, he cried. I'm the brook, with gram
mas curtain-sticlx! And there's lo
more, I shouldn't wonder"
But though they all went down K
J find Ollie's cap together, and fished un
, til almost dark, and though they wen
, fishing in the brook every day for the
next week, there was never so much as
, another nibble. 4a afU.
: 81 think" Ollie remarked confidential
ly to grandma, that my trout mus
, have come there 'spressly SO | coult
catch it for Jenny jerks"
! And Grandma Lane had the very SAM
, opinion. Ada Carleton Stoddard, il
5 Youths Companion. 3 8es
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