Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-06-26
TO visit TicktOwn is by


time you can gather your strawber-
and catch a COW you will be right
CRY, No place can furnish such an
elite with so few facilities for
nching il as TicktOwn.
be French Broad river is only a
drive from Ticktown, and fur
es rare sport during the fishing sea-
All sorts OF game fish, such as the
horse, the hog sucker, the stone
and the maltese catfish are abund-
ia the French Broad, and are caught
a club or dynamited when the
ID Jury is not in session. These fish
all rich and nOurishing, especially
put on a cucumber bed.
The German carp is also 10 be found
here In great abundance, and seven OF
the mamma carp on pleasant summer
night will easily lay eggs enough TO stop
navigation. With them it seems to be
a sort Of gift.
The sportsman during the carp season
provides himself with a twig with which
no scare her of, the uessand then a sled
stake with which TO take her lie. It is
very exciting. You also take along
small colOred boy To Is his duty every
time you land fish to burn a rag.
The hog sucker, or stone tOter, as il is
also called by ornithologiSts, is so called
because 10 has a fat place on the head
on which 20 carry stones for the purpose
OF building wing dams for nest. Some
call him the free and accepted mason,
because be lays such a beautiful wall
around his nest. The stone tOter makes
good eating, but does not resist arrest
like the trout or the bass. ] have caught
everything most, but nothing that re-
minds me OF the stone toter. Catching
him reminds me more OF catching the
humps than anything else.
The hog sucker is so called because be
has been very often fed 70 the hog. But
the native or Sarah Bernhardt hog will
not eat the hog sucker. Only the north
eru hog does it. He says; "Oh, how
lovelyl Isn't it nice 20 look az Mount
Pisgah and eat hog suckers? And IL
makes one feel so ALFRED well and so
vigorous too. ] could live here forever
est the hog sucker.
But the native or Goldsmith Maid hog
says nothing, but saws wood. He ILLS
himself up on acOrnS and such things,
takes turn or two around q kite shaped
track, sleeps an hour, eats buShel OF
corn on the ear, goes over 20 the depot
and eats tho packing out of a couple OF
sleeping cars, trains an hour or two 10
keep his flesh down and then goes TO
bed In this way he becomes a favorite
with the life Insurance companies while
the northern hog dies soon OF heart
failure, and early IN November you will
see him with s. chip in his mouth and
another holding his chest open so that
you can see the nice hard finish on the
inside of his thoraX.
There is another fish that one finds in
the French Broad river, called the Pride
of Perdition, I mink. IL has legs on it,
aud when q man catches one he throws
down his pole, gives two blood cUrdIing
shrie6S and hunts for Kelley inSsi-
tute.
The superintendent OF my farm told
me about it. He caught one a few weeks
ago and didn't feel like working for two
or three DAYS after that. The mouth was
made st a time when il was thought
there was going 20 be more lateral
than there really was, and so IA : body
IS slight and the legs are badly ia.wed
from trying tOcarry the mouth arouiio,,2
search pf more things to eat
What Ticktown needs is a good hotel.
AT pre- snt it Is sadly deficient 10 hotels;
eY rYthing else. But a good hotel