Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1893-08-22
ONE DAYS FISHING.

'Well, the next afternoon, winch was
Saturday, he came around with a fish
ing rod that I gave him, and when l got \
into the cab blame me if he didn't have
a trunk. Got my things in that said
he, and may I eternally fry if there
weren't things enough in that trunk to
stock pawnshop. By ged, he had every
thing from evening clothes to patent
bootiack. But he hasn't them any more,
and the major chuckled.
"We started for Mud Run, out III
Pennsylvania. I'd never been there be-
fore, but man told me there was good
fishing there. He was liar, by the way.
"About the time we got started the
colonel wanted to smoke, and by the
hind hobs of Gehenna if he hadn't
packed all the cigars in that bloody
trunk. When I cussed, he tried to get
up in the baggage car and was nearly
killed. Then he got some bad cigars
from the porter and growled for an hour
steady. Pretty soon he wanted drink,
and the whisky was in that COMPOUNDED
trunk
"The woman at the hotel where we got
out said it was too late to get anything
to eat, and the colonel got mad and
called me burbling chump for drag
| ging him out into the wilderness.
when the boy walked us in the morn
| ing. the colonel kicked because he had to
get up so early. He had the deuce OF
time finding his things in that Internal
trunk, and he kicked because got i'm
| patient.
"The woman at the hotel looked queer
when we got down. Going fishing? says
she. You'd better look out for the con-
stable. It's against the law to fish round
here Sundays
s'Then the colonel got suspicious and
said he didn't want to be locked up. l
got him into the wagon, and the driver
saws: Better look out for the constable.
It's against the law to fish round here
Sundays
"'say,' says the colonel, I'm not going
to get locked up and bring eternal dis
grace upon my family choked him
off finally, and we started. Then we met
n farmer, and he lowed that we'd get in
trouble if we fished on Sunday. The
driver grinned and the colonel, like the
eternal galoot he is, says, Il told you So.
It took me about 10 minutes to choke
him off, but he growled all the way to
the stream.
"Say," continued the major, ''did yor
: ever see the colonel catch trout? No? Well
neither did anybody else. He couldn'
catch trout in week of leap years. BY
9 ged, it was a sight to see him Will
the stream. It was like driving balky
mules over broken bridge. He banged
that river until half the fish in it wer
scared to death, and I guess he though
= he could catch trout by knocking then
- stone dead with his rod. He lost abou
/. two dozen flies trying to cast half tn
. length of his rod, and then he got hi
line all tangled up in the bushes. Dl
YOU ever hear the colonel swear? Wei
hodcarriers and river pirates aren't in
n with the colonel Talk about breakin
n the Sabbath! Why, the colonel swor
e enough to send an army to perdition fo
i eternity.
" "While the colonel was cussing every
'. thing in sight the driver came tearin
T. down the road, waving his hands like
h windmill in full sail.
"sHip he yelled, the constable's con
ing, and he's after you too. You'd be
ter get. Cut up through the woot
II there, and I'll meet you at the turn
W the pike
- "We didn't know where the turn
the pike was, but the colonel grabbt
Ill me BY the arm and hustled up into Il
woods. When we got under cover,
was steaming like soap factory al
cussing me too. !,
ou ".What in tho name Of thunder d
Won ever bring me out here for? "
~ want to get me arrested, do YOU?
;" 81 was that speeches. that I couldr
answer, lust stood and looked at hi
Pretty soon recovered.
Brought you out hereT said l. 'Y'
blooming blot of idiocy, who broug
YOU out here? You came yourself
sThen the colonel got madden tn
ever. and he wouldn't talk again. B
that was u mercy.
"It was getting along toward da
when we got to the hotel. The color
was prancing up to the front door VIII
" the man who drove the team come
M of barn.
All ".Hey,' says he, the constables wa
NJ ing for you fellows. He's over to
hotel
"Maybe and the colonel didn't n
Nv. We Just lit out and hung around in
M brush until it was plum dark. Then
ab. crawled back to the hotel, but the C.
gu. stable was still sitting there.
ter s.Then the colonel tried to make o
to the woods and the constable saw b
you With a whole pack in full cry after
'F'' the colonel and ran down the hill.
..n guess we outdistanced the constable I
his crew. But after awhile they ca
after us with lanterns, and we had
side run again. Up in the heavy brush =
mel lost us, and when we got our wind
ind struck out for the railroad.
This 1.-THE nearest station was 10 IN
. in away, and the colonel was nearly d
ures before we got half way there. He
TOT down OH tie and swore that no YVES