The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-06-11
STOW Y.ILIEY ALL RIGHT

where the land stops and the sky begins
STONY V.ILIEY All RIGHT
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Bill Ei.hbach Has Opa,ed tho Trout Sea
son There After Sou,e Mindrancen.
HARRISBURG. Juno 1o.-'-tIt look ed for a spel
this spring as IL tho trout season was being
pushed into back seat up in Stony Valley
said man who lives In that wild corner OF
Dauphin county. but Rlrssa it's safe enough
open now. We most always wa II for Bill Fish
bach to start the trout season In Stony Valley.
Bill is the boss trout fisherman In all that
country. and II he can't catch any everybody
else stays homo. He went out week or so
! ago TO see how the trout opened. i met MIN
lAnext day. rumpled and skinbroken-
"' Hellov I said. How many. Billr
".Only three. said he. careless liioe.
"'Only threer said L That's a,ane lot OF
| trout toryou to own up tor
-. on said Bill. them three wasn't trout:
| them three was bear
II wasn't expecting Bill to cay THAI, md so
| l didn't h,n'e anything ready to say back right
away. and before could think OF anything.
Bill had begun to tell about the bears.
"'I hadn't had no kind O. luck said he.
| md ] was feeling ugly. but for MI that
| wouldn't have pitched into the bear that came
along Just then. II it hadn't made me lose q
two pound trout. the first flsh / had hooked. I
hadn't q smell in my basket yet. and at Anvil
Rock Pool l got an all souzin' bite. The old
Teller sprung out o the water moro than two
foot as yanked the hook in his Jaw. and sec
that he weighed plumb two pounds. was
gittin' the best Of him fast. whom over my
head clear at the top o the WELL more than
sixty feet up. came q crackin' like tree
fallin'. l shot my eye up along tho rock.
md what should SEQ comm down.
turnin' all sorts O. summersets, but
slammn' big bear. and follerin' It
purity close was the limb Of q tree. The bear
pluuked square into the pool. but the limb
LODGED half way UP the side O. the rock The
bear didn't only PUNK in the pool. hut 1t
knocked my pole and line Gallywest. and sot
the bi& trout free. was somad that throwed
off my coat anil waited for. that bear to como
to the top>o' the water. for he had gone to the
bottom like .one. 1t seemed to me as II it was
more than two minutes fore that hear came
up: but BY and byhe come pu fin and snortin'
and spluti erin. He looked O little dazed
for n spell: and ahea pulled 'or land; ididn't
t nsaq POOL ike c US horse and trsd to throw
and as hs cit Eli s assS HnS
but would't let hin. and 1t wasn't long lore
ps s!eTG oo '% DARN n'e nas sksa
the bear personally. but he spilled my
shn and lost me o,s ySo1Dounder; nu,I My
lie ice beSr HS out o the resk. and was sittin'
ready to cI,t him up. when heerd q seratchin'
wards where me AND ne dead bear was Then
b. % ss and he
cubs was her young ones. / gathered 'em up
S n " p 9Th the sc ss 1 sS
when the limb broke and dow, she ~, come:
won't be peste with no plasuey bear to-
morrow. for 1 want to git q mess o trout the
iii! went fishing tho next .,s day; and was
"sot WHAT 1Est i 10 '' t 'iiNsS said l. "
Got twelve said he,
:@ sa, III NEWS trout aim. so'o.d. i,
These twelve is "a soc. seekers, said BIZ:
".,:.Grent spook" said I.
kettlssnakes seemed to be havin' gsth
fEfia VI its sS OIL v s1s
for they stuck up their grussles and shook
goin', any further down that stream. not II
they knowed it. The consequence was that l |
had to fight 1t out and settle EN- with club.
well. sir. | kept on m eetin' with rattlers |
every little ways. and after had killed the |
twelfth one. and looked on ahead and see
snakes on guard every rod or SO, Ak fur as my |
eyes could foller. concluded TO let 'em have |
their holiday out. whatever it might ben. and |
creek agn tomorrow said Bill.
:" went over to Bills the next night. He
Well. Bill said i. how did you come out
today
- Well said l. II II hear IL
enough. II it was one rattlesnake it was too
many. II 1t was one trout IT admit worth
enough
That one is trout said Bill: but that ono
is one hundred! And they're purifier than
peacocksH
Sure enough. Bill had one hundred beau
ties. There was n two pounder among ON,
and lots OF one-pounders. The lot weighed
ffty- two pounds. So I guess there amt any
doubt now but what the trout season.is safely
open up In Stony Valley"