Waterbury evening Democrat., 1894-11-14


 eminently fitted for that purpose, as it is one of the most beautiful spots on earth, and the trout stream is a perfect picture. It is shaded well, and therefore very cool, yet it is not so full of snags and dead logs as to consume q library of fly books per mile.
 Mir. Frank Chapman of Asheville and John Fox, Jr., the delightful author of .'The Cumberland Vendetta, ' are along. It would please you to see two or three literary giants out after bait on days when the trout does not rise to the fly, but keeps his seat at tho bottom of the pool.
 Yesterday was grand sort of day, with low mutterings of thunder. just such day as the true sport loves to go forth, rod in hand, to present his argu- ments for the consideration of his speckled constituents. It was a perfect day for late summer fishing in the North Carolina mountains. I caught 2S7 trout and the seat of my second best pantses Kersbrook was so named by Mir. Cush- ing and rises in the broad brow of Craggy mountain. It is succession of silvery cataracts. shadowed by huge n ceous granite upholstered with silken moss of pallid green. Below the melo- diOus cataract, where the frothy pool eddies and whirls about, bearing the empty bur of the chestnut or the red fruit of the cucumber tree, in a shady corner of the cool water, lies the alert little boy trout, hungry. but conserva tive, gamy, fierce and vcnturesome, but wary of the educated foe.
 We are using today the grub of the unhatched hornet for bait. never triep that before, but it works well. You slid | up to a large gray hornets nest, and while the family arc at tea in the rear l of their residence you plug up the front entrance and drown the inmates by plunging the whole nest into the creek Opening tho beautiful structure, you discover several combs like those of the l honeybee, only filled with the white or pale sulphur colored grub of the yellow I jacket, or Little Mammoth Surprise ! Package of the Blue Ridge.
 I gathered one of these hornets nests once in an unguarded moment, watching my chance to plug up the front door I just as no one was coming in. But the | last one out suddenly thought of some thing that he wanted to tell his wife and came hack while 1 was there An noyed evidently at something I had said perhaps in spirit of banter, he backed up against the bridge of my nose and 1 closed one of my eyes in a comparative | ly short space of time. I dropped my 1 glasses and decided to abandon the un- dertaking, but forgot to fully complete | my plugging arrangements before go- ing. Several of tho Mamma Touch menots, who had been on the nest. fol- lowed me and terraced the top of my head as we jogged along together to- ward Mobile.
 We get the boys here to procure our i hornets nests now, as there is a popular feeling engendered among the hornets against us. do not mind seeing a bear, because l am so agile that I can throw an ordinary grizzly bear with such force as to crush his skull. but the impatient little typhoid jabber with the over heated prong is so swift in his move ments that the average thought seems to be standing still as he passes by. MT. Fox is very active man both mentally and physically, and yet his efforts ill capturing the yellow jacket squab have been attended with only moderate success and tumor on the brow, which indicates an overdevelop- ment of spirituality.
 We gave out word at the school house on our way up the branch that We would pay 20 cents apiece for hor- nets nests ill a good state of preserva- tion, and that evening we had one end of the porch full of baby hornets for the ! morrow.
 carried n comb full of embryo hor- nets all day in my hip pocket, but to- ward evening the warmth of my person l had taken the place of the mamma hor- net to such an extent that II full sized ] pup hornets emerged from their little shells and stung me most bitterly. I did not tell the other gentlemen about it, but they noticed that I was sad, and that even the broiled trout at eventide and the low plunky plunE of the banjo 1 at the cabin did not give me joy. They also noticed that I carried a large pill | low around with me and sat on it to keep from taking cold on the dewy | earth.
 This morning eight boys came tC where we were fishing. All of them had large. beautiful welts over the eye, and they said that they were a committed sent to demand an advance on the price | f-SC4S%c-S< eT-xC~<cSS . =