The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1893-08-11
ONE DAYS FISHING.

major, "I agreed to take the colonel
fishing.
''Well, the next afternoon, which
was Saturday, he came around with
q fishing rod that gave him, and
when 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 a
pawnshop. BY ged, he had every
thing from evening clothes to a
patent bootjack But he hasn't
them any more" and the major
chuckled.
''We started for Mud Run, out in
Pennsylvania. I'd never been there
before, but man told me there was
good fishing there He was a 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 l 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 a drink and the
whisky was in that confounded
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
ehump for dragging him out into the
wilderness.
"When the boy walked us in the
morning the colonel kicked because
he had to get up SO early. He had
the deuce Of a time finding his things
in that internal trunk and he kicked
because I got impatient.
'The woman at the hotel looked
queer when we got down. Going
fishing?' says she. You'd better
look out for the constable. It's
against the law to fish round here
Sundays
Then the colonel got suspicious,
and said he didn't want to be locked
up. I got him into the wagon and
the driver says; Better look out for
the constable. It's against the Law
to fish round here Sundays
/" Say, says the colonel, TIM moi
going to get locked up and bring
eternal disgrace upon my family ]
choked him off finally, and We
started. Then we met farmer ant
he lowed that we'd get in trouble il
we fished on Sunday. The driver
grinned and the colonel, like The
eternal galoot he is, says: I told yol
so. 1t took me about ten minutes
to choke him off, but he growled al
the way to the stream.
"Say," continued the major, "diC
you ever see the colonel catch trout
No? Well, neither did anybody else
He couldn't catch trout in a weel
Of leap years. By ged, it was sigh
to see him whip the stream. 1t wa
like driving bally mules over a broker
bridge. He banged that river unit
half the fish in it were scared t.
death, and guess he thought he coul,
catch trout by knocking them ston
dead with his rod. He lost abou
two dozen flies trying to cast hal
the length of his rod and then he go
his line all tangled upin the bushes
Did you ever hear the colonel swear
Well, hod carriers and river pirate
aren't in it with the colonel. Tai
about breaking the Sabbath. Why
the colonel swore enough to send a
army to pedition for eternity.
"While the colonel was cussin
everything in sight the driver cam
tearing down the road, waving hi
hands like windmill in full sail.
"Hip he yelled, the constable
coming, and he's after you, toc
You'd better get. Cut up throug
the woods there, andI'll meet you {
the turn Of the pike.