Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-07-12
THOSE HoRRIp FISH.
They Played Havoc With the Nerves ef One
 Fellows Girl.

They Played Havoc With the Nerves ef Ono
 Fellows Girl.
 sIf your girl can't fish, take her ur to Greenwood lake on an excursion some Sun day and go fishing with her on the lake," said a young man who clerks in a bank. If she knows how to fish, 1t won't be half so much fun, and 1t will be all the more fun if you don't know how to fish yourself.
 "A friend of mine and myself got our girls to go with us to Greenwood lake last Sunday. We hadn't any idea what we were going to do or see when VIC got there, and we didn't care, only so we had good time. Going up, I asked the conductor what we were likely to run against at Greenwood to have some fun with.
 ".Can you dancer said he
 "I told him we could.
 "'Can you flshp said he
 "I told him we couldn't.
 "'Then 20 out fishing said he.
 That was kind O queer advice, we thought but the conductor seemed to know what he was talking about, and we made up our minds that we would take his advice and go fishing. The first thing we struck, though, was a refreshing look ing casino, and we half concluded to take that in, but we didn't. But when we ran against a dancing platform, with the or chestra just humming and a lot of folks tripping it away to a lively waltz, al fresco, the girls weakened and guessed they'd rather dance than go fishing. My friend and kind O laid down a little, too, on the fishing scheme, but I couldn't get all the way over the manner in which the con- ductor had told us to go fishing if we didn't know how, and so I talked the rest out of the dance, and we got a couple of boats and 6 hshpole apiece and some bait and pre- pared to go fishing.
 "'where's the best place to fishP I asked of the man who hired us the boats.
 "'Know much about fishinf said he.
 ".No,' said I.
 "'Then it don't make no difference where you fish, said he.
 "'what kind O fish will we catchr asked.
 "'If you don't know how to fish, said he, there ain't no tellin what you won't ketch. the way fish is actin in this pond ''So he told us how to bait our hooks. and we rowed out and went to fishing. The boats drifted about on the lake for a good while, and was talking to Sue and forgot all about 1t that I was fishing, and Sue was talking to me, and fishing had slipped out of her mind. too. when all of sudden Sue screamed and hollered out: "'Oh, Charley! Something's trying to take my fishpole away from me!' Sure enough, her pole was being jerked down to the water, and Sue was trying to keep 1t up.
 "'Hold cn to 1t. Suer hollered. Maybe | you've got biter
 "Just then big fish jumped out of the water, Is or 20 feet from one side of the boat, shook itself like dog shaking a rat | and glaring at us the maddest kind. Sue screamed louder than ever and hollered: "'It's jumping at me, Charleyi Why don't you kill the horrid thinRi" | stT mt pola the seat and nn if and rowed fast to where the fish had | jumped out, intending to kill it with ar oar if it sprang again, but when got ther, | it jumped up 20 feet in another direction madder than ever. l knew that my friend had his pistol with him, and 1 turned tt | yell to him to hurry over to us with it when the fish leaped out of the water no more than & dozen feet behind our boat l Then Sue just more than screamed: | "'Oh, it's chasing us, CharleyP she cried Pull for shore and call for helpP
 "I don't know just what I would hay, done if Sue hadn't screamed again ant hollered:
 "'Now it's heading us off, Charlier
 Sure enough. the big fish had jumpet for us. in front of the boat again-at leas that's what thought until it jumped i'm mediately astern of us again. and then discovered that two fish were after us-on on Sues line and one on mine. Then I di, holler for my friend to come over with hi pistol, and while he was on the way the fisl on my line gave jump and a lunge. snap | ped the line in two and didn't come for u again. About the same time Sue gave shriek of joy and exclaimed:
 "'Thank goOdnessl He's gone at lastp
 1.-The fish that had been threatening he had broken the line and disappeared toe When my frieud came up and we told hin of our exciting adventure, he didn't say any thing for awhile, and then said:
 "I wonder why 1t wouldn't have beel the proper thing to have yanked them fla in and landed 'em in your boatS l "'Why, of course it would. Charley sai Sue reproachfully. I wonder you didn' think of that
 "I wondered at 1t a little myself and sai we'd try for 'em again. It wasn't long bt fore Sue hollered that the fish was after he pole again. Whether 1t was the same on or not don't know. but 1t looked like when it jumped, and we got 1t in the boat and killed it with an oar. A lot more ifs tackled us before the day was out, and th most of them we didn't get, but we ha heaps of fun seeing them get away. Ina conductor knew what he was talking about Ifyour girl can't fish. and you can't nsf take her upto Greenwood lake some Sur day and go fishing with her. and you have fun."-Sev York Sun